Three Strikes, DMCA Letters Won't Work > It's just that easy, right?

said by Romney2012:

Cheap is still more expensive than free.

said by Corydon:

Tell that to Apple and Amazon.

I'm more than tech-savvy enough to find stuff I want to download for free online.

I choose to buy my music online. Why? The providers have made it easy. And I prefer to pay for the value I derive from having it.

The moment that Apple removed DRM from iTunes was the moment I became a customer.

And I'll do the same for buying movies online too. Kill the DRM and let me use my purchase as I see fit (preferably with a decent online customer interface) and you'll have me as a customer for life.

Yes, but the pirates have always been with us and always will be. Heck, I used to pirate Commodore 64 games back when we were cracking and copying 5 1/4" floppy disks (I'll note that I no longer engage in this sort of thing and made a point of buying my favorite games—the Ultima Collection—when it became available back in the '90s)

Piracy is the sort of thing that most people grow out of. It's a combination of immature self-centeredness, lack of empathy and lack of funds. And even if you retain the self-centeredness as you grow older, most of us begin to earn enough to drop $0.99 on the tracks we want to get (a small price to pay to avoid the headaches and hassles that go hand-in-hand with piracy).

said by Corydon:

most of us begin to earn enough to drop $0.99 on the tracks we want to get (a small price to pay to avoid the headaches and hassles that go hand-in-hand with piracy).

said by r81984:

What headaches and hassles???