So when people in China and Vietnam make illegal copies of American products, and distribute them wherever they like including back to America without paying for them, you claim this doesn't damage those American businesses?
There you go, changing the scope of my statement yet again.
I was talking about the domestic markets in third-world countries, not exports of cheap copies to the industrial West.
What you seem irredeemably hardheaded about is this: the $3.00 pirated DVD in [Vietnam, China, India, Burma, Bangladesh, Iraq, etc.] is more expensive on a cost-of-living basis than the $19.95 legit version sold in America.
Using a 10x cost-of-living adjustment (which is quite conservative), that $3.00 pirated DVD is more like $30.00 in third-world buying power.
Conversely, that same cost-of-living normalization would make the cost of a $19.95 legitimate U.S. DVD more like $199.95.
So if Hollywood raised domestic pricing on U.S. DVDs to $199.95, would you be buying them? NFW. Will Hollywood start selling $3.00 DVDs in the third-world? Again, NFW.
As for the cheap shot-from-screen vids, precisely which market is that "damaging"? The "I hate movie theatres" market? The "I'll wait for the video" market? The "No movie theatres within 100 kilometers" market?