I think the problem arise from the free rider effect(economical term). People rely on the next person after them to do what should be done... IE donating money, purchasing stuff...
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Because the notion of "fairness" is controversial, free riding is usually only considered to be an economic "problem" when it leads to the non-production or under-production of a public good, and thus to Pareto inefficiency, or when it leads to the excessive use of a common property resource. See also collective action problem.
A common example of a free rider problem is defense spending: no one person can be excluded from being defended by a state's military forces, and thus free riders may refuse or avoid paying for being defended, even though they are still as well guarded as those who contribute to the state's efforts. Therefore, it is usual for governments to avoid relying on volunteer donations, using taxes and, in some countries, conscription instead.
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from wikipedia.org
I am pretty sure that a lot of people are using the following way of approaching the warez issue. Open hypothetical quote: Yeah, i wont buy that software, anyways, there must be a lot of people buying it so i dont need to buy it... THe guy must be making a lot of money out of it. end hypothetical quotes. I dont know if you see what i mean here...
Also, i worked during my studies at an hardware store(Futureshop, which is basicly a bestbuy) and people tend to have problem buying or spending money, even when its 50 bucks out of a purchase of 1000 dollar or more. I was always offering an antivirus software (not the most expensive) with evey customer that bought a computer, also same thing with microsoft office... People tend to always answer that they could get it for free and they knew a technician that could do something for them... I swear to god...(on a side note, technicians in that city where i was working must have had hard time finding a job cause there were so many of them :P)
With both arguement stated above, my own conclusion is that it is an heart breaking decision for a human being to buy something that he can have for free by warez ways. I can understand them, but i am doing my MBA right now and i am covering research cost of some companies.... I decided to buy all the apps on my touch after my first semester lol...
The only thing that remains unpaid is garmin(igo 2008 now). I guess the point is that i sold so many stand alone gps unit when i was working in the hardware store that i justify cracking for my effort (i know its wrong tought).