Industry rhetoric is all it is

RECORDING industry officials must have been bristling with anticipation to see Malaysia’s current anti-piracy campaign bite. With pirates walking the plank, the hope was that legitimate distributors could ply their wares with neither undue competition nor motivational prods. 

Consumers would be required to pay higher prices, but to the industry its interests would have to come first. Since piracy is illegal, disgruntled consumers would just have to pay up and shut up.