Nobody is <i>entitled</i> to anything, not even your starving artist or starving authors. If the majority of the people don't want to support your career choice, you don't have the right do anything about it.<p>If that mean that the creation of arts and musics grind to halt, so be it. That's how a free society work.<p>Artists, programmers, and everybody else are supposed to die and live by their creation. It is <i>their job</i> to convince everyone else that their career is worth supporting.<p>Consumer sovereign are sovereigns for a reason, because they have the money. They are your lifeline, and they're <i>alway right</i>.<p>You can whine about how authors are being ripped off, or you can choose to look at reality and the economics of it. Your choice.