[Rev Aristotle Jones]

If piracy/warez were eliminated the prices of games, CDs, mail order brides, whatever, would not go down one cent.

I can remember a time before Napster, before peer-to-peer, before the internet got binary, when games consoles first came out and I can tell you that the relative cost of games was the same then, if not higher than it is now.

It is obvious that piracy and "sharing" hurts the industries, but considering the amount of time that they have been fisting the consumer it could be considered as a little bit of corporate karma.