@nathraiben: fair points

but please address how DRM is a major hindrance in my example above?

I also think the point about "people who will pirate will pirate and those who will pay will pay" is bull. Just look at the the great work by tomaszd:

241,000 downloads and only 21 EUR donated. It was not even 10 EUR before this point was specifically mentioned in another thread a few days ago.

src: http://forums.internettablettalk.com...475#post716475

(btw, for anyone's who've used tomaszd extra decoder package please consider donating from the link in his sig!)

This is already a painful statistic from a software package that we all can see the benefit and value of, coming from one of our own in the community. Think of what would happen when the producer is replaced by a giant heartless corporation... (which also need the money to continue to produce the goodies we like).

@cheve: free market, you can't regulate those (price and content). the market (demand) will weed out those too expensive and those with quality too low to generate demand (like angryman on ovi heh).