What pisses me off: If people would stop pirating prices for movies, games and so forth would start increasing. Why? No more competition. And I\'m pretty sure they would try to fight those people that upload their stuff for free. In Germany they are already doing it. I\'m working with several major German bands and a lot of them material for free to Youtube, on their official channel. About 30-40% of the time youtube gets forced to block this content by the state(GEMA), without anyone asking the respective band first. Trust me on this one, I know the numbers: Pirating is good for everyone. The producers, the creative people, the public, the executives. But most of the revenue generated by this is 'invisible revenue', which is usually contributed to 'our marketing campaign back from a year ago' or similar nonsense. You think the music industry allows their content on the radio because they get some money from the radio stations? That\'s small fries. It\'s all about making the product popular enough so people are willing to invest in the secondary offshoots(like concert tickets, physical copies of the product for collection, merchandise). But what pirating has one big 'drawback': Only good content benefits from pirating. Bad content does not. And that\'s what they are really afraid of, the need to create good content and not profiting from the bad stuff. I\'m sorry if I\'m explaining this badly, my English sucks today...