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Scarcity and the physical medium never had anything to do with pricing of artistic works. That was just the reality of a pre-internet world. It's really all about capitalism and the ability of artists and companies trying to earn money from their artistic creations or media that they produced. With the digitization and instant copyability of digital media nowdays, the new generation growing up just doesn't *have to* pay anymore except in some limited cases. As a matter of fact many young people take it a step further and will ridicule those who do pay for any digital media by calling them names like fool or sucker.
It's no longer fashionable to say this but you sound like a dirty communist with all your nonsense rhetoric. You're like a Jesus or God believer who already has his mind made up about the existence of a deity looking for evidence to support his erroneous conclusion rather than like a smart scientist who lets the evidence determine the conclusion he infers based on that evidence. So you'll copy any pithy quote or half assed "study" or commentary by people who make a point you think is clever and post it.
While I certainly believe that the internet still has potential for artists to make money there can be no debate that it's also essentially a free for all where even normally law abiding citizens can simply become scofflaws, shrug their shoulders and say fuck it, I'm never going to waste my hard earned money on music, tv, movies, software ever again.
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