When I see "killed by piracy" I read "killed by the business' inability to come up with a working real-world model and not willing to admit it".
Back in the day I had hundreds of games for my C64 and amigas. The games I payed for can be counted on one hand. I also used to use such excuses as above to feel good about my piracy. After those years I can now see a system can't survive on such a user base.
Heck, I really must be getting old; I'm even paying for my digital music recently.
