The issue is that it's a matter of content distribution models. The future is bound to be a world of self-discriminating consumers, where people willingly pay different amounts to experience content in different ways, and the problem is that content providers only really think about serving the upper-ends of the self-discriminating spectrum (e.g. the kinds of people willing to buy DVDs, or hardcover books, or go in person to the movies, etc), and that content providers think narrowly and try to divide the market upon national boundary lines in what has become a fundamentally global world.
In making the mistake of neglecting low-revenue customers (i.e. people that aren't going to pay to see something, but who could watch it ad-supported on the internet, or who might pay for a service that allows them to view the thing), and in trying to region-lock (and here i'm really talking about region-locking content on the internet), they are essentially throwing out a group of people that are willing to consume the media, just not at the price levels offered, or who are barred from legitimate access for arbitrary reasons
Piracy will always triumph until companies embrace these low-revenue or out-of-market consumers. And when companies do so, they will find they lose relatively few of the self-discriminating high-paying customers, such that people who paid for DVDs before will still pay for the DVD even if the whole movie is available streaming on 20th Century Fox's website, but then Fox is getting the ad clicks instead of MediaFire
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
