Quote - I have a program that I can charge 2000 dollars for and sell to 100,000 people who have 2000 dollars, or I could sell that same software to 1,000,000 people who have 200 dollars.

That's a very dubious proposition - the demand/price graph is unlikely to be linear, above a certain price demand is likely to rise more quickly than price drops, so the publisher ends up ahead of the game, but below the threshold price demand will not rise as quickly as the price drops, so the publisher starts to lose. Also, different markets will respond in different ways, and will have different dynamics (I doubt Autodesk has to field the elementary issues that crop up in Poser and DAZ related forums, for example, though the issues they do get may well require a more thorough treatment) which will affect the price and reach that is desirable. And unfortunately price has very little to do with the odds of being leeched - even freebies (permanent freebies, not just freebies of the week) get put up on warez sites.