Your next sentence is as baseless and incorrect as the one I quoted.
I’ve been hearing this chicken little shit for 30 years and every year piracy is so bad that the end is near.
I think it’s more likely that piracy drives and improved digital sales. That’s just my hunch, but it’s based on my experience of everything going digital, companies making more money on it than ever, and piracy greater than ever.
Philosophically, I think piracy is a more future oriented and likely successful than the alternative. I fear for a future when we are digital beings having to subscribe to Apple Music in order to remember a song and play it in my “mind.” Piracy today is peace of mind tomorrow.
If you think there's no level of piracy as a fraction of total consumption that would destroy the economics of content production, then I'm afraid you're too unreasonable a person for me to engage with successfully.
Yet, we do have both. We are at both peak piracy and peak revenue for digital content.
I think it’s false that people state that these things are exclusive.