> If everything was cheaply, easily available, piracy would exist at similar numbers.

This contradicts all the research that shows that piracy went down when cheap, easy and reliable music services were available that let you access content how you want, eg. time shifted, different devices, not region restricted, etc. And piracy went up when they tried to lock that stuff down again.

Piracy will never fall to zero, but it's not worth fighting below a certain point.