Oh come on. "large portions of humanity"...really? There are studies that show, people who torrent also buy. Good products will be bought. Bad products won't. They'll still be available illegally but there will just be less people to fall for crap. Interestingly, those people with crap are those who complain the most.
Your overdramatisation isn't helping anyone. You hurt your position more then you help because with all that piracy going on in "large portions of humanity", the whole market looks pretty good. There was even more piracy going on in several sectors (music for example) and guess what, there is still music being made today! In fact, they never stopped. There is still Microsoft out there! Popular Games, Movies and so on. There are even musicians who share their products on torrents for free and don't end up broken in the end. There are so many examples why your overdramatisation is wrong and all those hurt the discussion. That makes me despair of a certain portion of the startup scene that seems to be stuck in some long past vision of "how it should be".
Your overdramatisation isn't helping anyone. You hurt your position more then you help because with all that piracy going on in "large portions of humanity", the whole market looks pretty good. There was even more piracy going on in several sectors (music for example) and guess what, there is still music being made today! In fact, they never stopped. There is still Microsoft out there! Popular Games, Movies and so on. There are even musicians who share their products on torrents for free and don't end up broken in the end. There are so many examples why your overdramatisation is wrong and all those hurt the discussion. That makes me despair of a certain portion of the startup scene that seems to be stuck in some long past vision of "how it should be".