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It's the socialist remark that keeps popping up. I'm not a socialist, so that card doesn't play well. I'll trump it any day with a capitalist bent. Give me $1,000 every time you call me a socialist and I'll agree with you out of my capitalist nature. Geez.

The rhetoric is lost on me, you see. You can't whine about the challenges of being in business, you have to address them. By all means, if you cannot find a reasonable way to profit without exorbitant pricing, then by all means go with the exorbitant pricing. But by doing that, the incentive to copy increases.

This isn't about 'economics'. It's about keeping things within normal limits and so making copying things illegally and risking trouble less worth the risk. At what dollar amount would you risk getting sent to prison for? $1? $10? $100? $1,000,000?

That's not economics, it's a little trick called common sense. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time. :-)