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[Page] 258 [My Comments] Yet you can compete with free? Submitting to a racketeer’s demands who offers protection for a payoff can also be called a business model, but is it really? It is clear that if it is equally convenient and safe to buy a CD at a fraction of the price at which it is being legitimately offered, most people would go with the cheaper option. To make sales of pirate CDs unsafe and inconvenient is the purpose of copyright laws. [Quote from Patry’s book] 
Pirate CDs were, however, priced closer to the comparative cost of living, but still not equivalent. Where an Indian consumer was presented with the choice of buying the CD at the equivalent of US$385 (CPP) for the authorized copy, or US$54 for the unauthorized CD, the choice was clear.
How Not To Fix Copyright - My Response to William Patry - Socialist copyright law - Soviet Union | Mincov Law Blog
Quote from Patry’s book