Originally Posted by
motorfirebox
We can beat it down now and see a resurgence in a year or two or five, or we can work to contain it and also work to remove the root cause. It seems unlikely that we can do both, or I might advocate that.
Because the money is not the only thing sustaining this activity. If it were just money, then we'd see people from every corner of the globe, first world certainly included, engaging in this sort of piracy. I don't know about you, but my projects don't net hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars each. I know a lot of other people who don't see that kind of money, either.