Yes, but a correlation does not mean there has to be a causation.

Yes I agree. I just want to emphasize the "causation" effect because people here generally dislike piracy but they don't have a choice. The price is so expensive. It's either we pirate it or we don't use it at all.

It's kinda remind me of why the President of Romania told Bill Gates that "piracy helped the young generation discover computers". http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/224452.shtml