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Comment on Ask HN: Will software/media piracy ever be taboo?

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Same reason people jaywalk when they're on foot but cuss out pedestrians when they're driving.

Do you think there's a way you can pirate-proof your creative product? Not in terms of DRM or some such... I mean, how would you create media/software that some non-trivial subset PREFERS to purchase rather than pirate? Most of the examples I can think of have to do with

1. rabid fans & exclusive events (e.g. midnight film/book release, tshirts for the first 500 funders on Kickstarter), or

2. social/organizational/convenience ecosystems (e.g. Steam, iTunes, Netflix/Hulu/etc).

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