There does exist a whole other class of pirates out there for whom "piracy" is not a "problem" but a pass-time. E.G. - a lot of the people actually doing the work to dump the ROMs, build emulators, crack encryption, etc, are not doing it as a means to an end but as an end itself. The act of figuring out how to get that ROM off that watered down tablet and then emulate the environment on PC is much more fun to them than the game itself.
For many people, DRM is like a mountain, and we are George Mallory.
Exactly. These people are there for the technical challenge, not for profit reasons.
I mean the whole discussion is pretty moot until someone comes up with an example of software company, record company, a band, an author, etc. that got killed by piracy.
"We had a good business going on, then sales dropped because our users moved to pirate releases and we couldn't generate the same revenue anymore"
I haven't heard about such an affair. Unless there are some, we're talking mind crimes and hypothetical victims. If I pirate a movie you can't say I stole five bucks from you because that's the share you get out of a cinema ticket, cause going to movies was never 'an alternative'