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If you assume only way people are obtaining the media is by unlicensed reproduction, then it doesn’t matter.

Big if. Practically, the movie studios aren’t poor because their product has instances of infringement.

>>jpalaw+(OP)
Many people who write books are small-time. Apparently the median total income of full-time book authors is 20k.

So the median person who is harmed when something competes with his book authorship is someone making 20k p.a., not someone who is a major shareholder of a big firm.