But when a person has the option of watching a pirate copy vs. a paid copy, then there is a loss. To extrapolate— if everyone only used pirate copies, who would finance movie production or music production or book publishing?

> To extrapolate— if everyone only used pirate copies, who would finance movie production or music production or book publishing?

If everyone only pirated, it would mean nobody valued that stuff enough to sustain it. If people doesn't value it, let it die. Can you imagine a world where nobody values movies or music or books? I can't. And therefore I can't see them dying, no matter what. So this concern is irrelevant to me.

I'm not sure why I would need to come up with ways to finance the production of goods that people don't want to pay for. Going back to my previous example, I have no idea how the Detective Pikachu movie would get financed if everyone in the world had the same lack of interest in it as I do. But I also wouldn't be too upset if no one was interested in a Detective Pikachu movie and it never got financed and produced.