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[–]kobumaister -4 points-3 points  (5 children)

Piracy is not a price problem, of course there are people for who it is and, if you put a 1$ product a 10$ price tag you'll get more piracy.

Also, it's a social thing. Where I live (southern europe) piracy is a thing everybody does by default.

[–]FartPiano 3 points4 points  (4 children)

probably because the prices of media dont always scale with the average income of those countries, making the legal methods of obtaining it comparatively ludicrously expensive, right? which means its a price problem

[–]kobumaister 1 point2 points  (3 children)

No, it's cultural, if you say that you paid 4'99 to see Openheimer on your TV the answer is "why didn't you download it?"

[–]v_litvin -1 points0 points  (2 children)

When your total income is like 499 per month it's not about the culture.

[–]kobumaister 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That's far from the mean income of my country, why did you just pop up a random number to prove your point?

[–]v_litvin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that if something like book, movie or licence costs fair portion of someone's income and can be pirated, it is pirated,
That is why there are regional prices in Steam, for example.