that's just ludicrous... you want someone from each software dev company was to personally ask someone using pirated their software not to... this would end up costing more to the consumers, lead to less people buying, then more people pirating, and an absolute opposite or what you'd hope to achieve...

if someone wants to steal something, they'll steal it, simple as. you can't say that if something costs too much it's then justified that these people are then put into the pirates category to make it seem ok of fighting the large corporations

if a car costs too much, people leave it alone and choose a cheaper version... why should the same not happen for software, is it just that cheaper versions of the same software are not available?