What folks don't realize though is that if a region of the world pirates everything they possibly can, be it because of culture, economy or whatever, that they're cutting themselves out of the overall market. If Egypt has a 90% piracy rate (made up number) why should anyone attempt to make a product, or tailor a product to Egypt?
What you'll see is places like this get left behind entirely as digital media continues to advance. Which is fine if they want to consume music, movies and games done entirely in English. But I'm always seeing complaints when something isn't offered in someone's native langauge. Why should anyone make a Thai translation if they won't even make back the cost of translating?
One of the main points I got from the original article was that piracy will happen, that's unaviodable. The result is you don't make a product for those people. If that means not making a product for the Middle East, that's what it means. If piracy is the norm somewhere, the consequence is that those places will forever have to deal with content in other languages, not designed or targeted to their culture etc.
