It is certainly true that some content that has been pirated would not have been bought anyway. Although I do feel that this might insentivise draconian DRM. I

It is certainly true that some content that has been pirated would not have been bought anyway. Although I do feel that this might insentivise draconian DRM. If you are going to buy $50 worth of content per month and then pirate everything else you are probably going to pirate the stuff that is most easy to pirate. For example I know people who pirate just about every PC game because it is as simple as downloading the torrent, installing and sometimes cracking. OTOH they don't pirate iOS games because they don't want to jailbreak their iPhones. The result is that iOS game developers get more money from them not because they like iOS games more but because iOS is the more locked down platform.