Pardon me, but this is <i>total bullshit</i>.<p>Piracy is not market correction. There is no reason a particular product has to be priced relative to the marginal cost of production. According to his logic, an audio cd should cost less than a dollar.<p>Producers can price their product however they want. Consumers have the choice to buy it if they can afford it. Trade happens only if both parties think that they are getting value out of it, econ 101.<p>Unfortunately in digital age, a consumer can get the product by illegal means even if they can't afford it and producer doesn't really have a way to stop this illegal behavior.<p>I am surprised that this post reached top of hacker news.