7 people at a LAN party I attended last month were in the process of trying to buy the latest Borderlands DLC when someone pointed out it had Securom.  I had it in my Steam cart when I found it out, and promptly removed it.  Everyone who played the DLC that night played the pirated  version instead.<p>There are certainly cases where piracy is a market correction of sorts, but you certainly can't just narrow it down to a single cost-to-produce argument like the linked article.  It's a large variety of different problems and incentives tied to a single, very polarizing, issue.<p>Trying to come up with a magic bullet solution/answer is just shooting at the wind.