Price may be the leading factor probably.. probably! BUT I have never seen anyone mentioning as the factor that often the only way to get a movie, CD, DVD, software or whatever in particular developing country is to download it illegally. And it is not only due to the fact that people cannot buy the CDs and DVDs they would wish in their local stores. Often when people would like to get the content legally in an online store or whatever, they see messages like "We currently do not ship to your location" or "You do not have access to this material from your location", etc. To me - if most of the content was available freely locally (and for a reasonable price of course), there would be no need for most people to learn about other ways acquiring the content in an illegal way. I think many people would nowadays prefer to pay even for a quaity download rather than downloading and testing several torrent files or watching a movie on a screener..

After all the moral damage and sleepless nights IE has caused to the web developer community with its "quirks", if I was one of IE developers, before I started working on IE, I would require being accepted in kind of "anonymous witness" program by FBI where like in movies they relocate witnesses of criminal cases and their families to different location and completely change their identities.