In the goods economy, you weren't competing with perfect duplicates of your product that are priced at $0.00.
In the pirate economy, companies are forced to compete with their exact product, their exact work at $0.00. Take away the alternative at $0.00, and their prices might well have very nice intersections of supply and demand, but with Kim Dotcom offering it at $0 or $5/mo for millions of products, the market is completely distorted.
I know that a lot of intellectually dishonest fellows such as yourself like to pretend that there are no lost sales, but no thinking person believes that trope. It's obvious that if the same product is available for $20 and $0, that many of the people who understand how to get it for $0 will do so, even if they otherwise would've paid $20.
In the pirate economy, companies are forced to compete with their exact product, their exact work at $0.00. Take away the alternative at $0.00, and their prices might well have very nice intersections of supply and demand, but with Kim Dotcom offering it at $0 or $5/mo for millions of products, the market is completely distorted.
I know that a lot of intellectually dishonest fellows such as yourself like to pretend that there are no lost sales, but no thinking person believes that trope. It's obvious that if the same product is available for $20 and $0, that many of the people who understand how to get it for $0 will do so, even if they otherwise would've paid $20.