said by MyDogHsFleas:A rational consumer will look at this as a tradeoff.
Pay $10 or $20 for a CD or DVD, or less than that to buy from iTunes....
vs. figure out where to go to start, download the app, start it, configure it, search for what you want, worry about whether it's really a virus, download it, and play it.
Now... iTunes and the like make the latter process dirt simple, reliable, well-known, and cheap. Whenever the owners see something springing up that approaches that level, they will react. They want the average consumer to say, "Screw it, this is too hard/dangerous, I'll just buy it."
No need to, with google, yahoo, etc. isn't much more difficult to find the torrent than it was on the pirate bay. Yeah, they took down a big target, but so what. If the piratebay was the only place in the world to find stuff, then yeah, store a big one for corporate. But really, the end user isn't as helpless as you make them out to be. They know that in the infinite wisdom of the Internet, it only takes a few clicks to find it elsewhere.
