You make it sound like this is the only opportunity for disruption yet fail to bring a point to the table to back up this claim. Piracy is a violation of copyrighted content plain and simple. It is illegal. We will find another way.

Thesis; Antithesis; Synthesis. That's how it always works.

Does anyone really think it would be possible today to buy a DRM-free song for under a buck from multiple sources, if not for the competition represented by Napster and its successors?