And the general public just doesn't consider this to be a pressing issue. Not with all these celebrity scandals and whatnot going on.
The general public doesn't care because the general public pirates. I dont know if the U.S. is any differnt but here in canada, even my grandma pirates music, shes over 70! It took her over a year to finally use her cd player she got for christmas. And now shes heard from one of her friends that you can get music free off the computer and wants me to help her get some cds.
For truely great games, such as crysis I have no problem paying $40-50 for.
This pirated copy is more or less of a thank you gift to me from EA, They are letting my play a game im buying a few days early in return for all the crap they handed me in the past.
Of course not everyone feels this way about crysis and I imagine some people will download it, finsh it and feel as if they do not need to pay but thats not my problem.