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It's not that simple; there are places where your asset has value for a user but the user _cannot_ (and I really mean cannot here) pay that value.

It's not a matter of convenience, and it's not just because it's cheaper either -- piracy is the only way to actually get access to it for some people. Otherwise, it's just prohibitively expensive for them.

Sure, you could argue that that still falls under "because it's cheaper", but there's a difference between someone pirating because they just want to save money and someone pirating because they literally can't afford to get it legally no matter what.

And this doesn't cover stuff like software just being plain unavailable in some regions; I literally cannot get some software I use in university legally.