YW Moderator-42: Wrong. It has been determined and proven time and again, that the foremost reason that people pirate music is CONVENIENCE. Either they can get it from their friends iPod when comes over. Or you can shlep to the music store to hear a copy of the new CD, buy a copy and bring it home, try converting into their iTunes so they can get it on their iPod, and then that fails because of skipping in the cd and quality issues. Then the CD cracks unfortunately and you have to shlep to buy the cd again or just suffer it out and wait until the friend with the loaded iPod returns.
Or you can offer the consumer an easy, not-as-pricy but much cheaper to distribute digital song, with no expensive physical goods to produce. The user goes online and within minutes has it on their iTunes and iPod.
Should make you think twice before blaming people for being so ruthless when its really just human nature to end up doing the laziest process possible when it hasn’t been 100% accepted amongst the poskim as assur.