You talk about xbox live and itunes as if they were the solution for all problems. Well, itunes does not offer lossless flac. And itunes is Apple. I don’t buy from apple. There’s Amazon too but I still have issues to pay since they seem to think the US = the world. And I happen to own an xbox but what if I didn’t? Ok we have Steam (same payment problems but nvm me) but what will happen in 15 years when they don’t exist or they stop providing support for their DRM games? I still play 20 yr old games. And I’m glad they are MINE and I can do whatever I want with them, now or 15 years in the future.

Pirates are not the reason for DRM. The entertainment industry’s own myopia is to blame for DRM. Such measures don’t bother pirates. Pirates circumvent them, easily. Legit users have to bear with them. I, as a legit consumer, know better: when I decide to buy something I will keep the DRM free copy (or download it in the cases I managed to check the content before by legit means).

As for ppl caring for themselves only, just Google about how MAFIAA screws up the artists. I’m gonna save you some time in the music business with a few links (hollywood accounting linked inside these articles):

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110808/04134515432/emi-doesnt-pay-royalties-it-does-to-wrong-people-it-doesnt-maybe-it-does.shtml
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml

Eat it. Before spitting at the ‘pirates’ take a look at your own rotten industry.

Must? Would you pay for a bad product, a product that didn’t do what you expected it to do? This is no different than you trolls saying pirates feel they are “entitled” to everything for free. The word is not must, the word is SHOULD be paid if the content is actually worth the money.