@Chikako
I see where you're going with that, but you're missing the point in that if there were completed physical manuals with the product, more people would pay for it.  No matter what way a person looks at it, there's always going to be something that someone see a problem with, but my point is extremely simple, to make people want to buy a physical copy.  If you can entice someone to buy a physical copy, you win, the pirate loses.

If you don't, you lose and the pirate wins, which is what is happening right now.  You don't get a printed manual because it saves on cost, but the cost saved is nothing compared to the revenue lost by people chosing not to buy.  Customers need an incentive to buy a physical product over a download, otherwise they might go astray and get it for free - which is what they're doing ;-)

On the other hand, no one got the Portishead boxset for free, because you can't distribute a physical product on a via download.

@Wolf
Can you see the problem you have?

I gave just you a real example of a product that beats the pirates into submission, yet you still dismiss it.  Everything you just wrote was a complete load of bullshit, because the proof of what I'm explaining is here, in the picture right in front of you, that boxset doesn't suffer from piracy, so what part of that don't you understand?  They have beaten the pirates, and they did so by breaking away from the dumbass culture that uses iTunes and spyPads and crap like that.  Pirates can copy the virtual download of every track in that boxset, they can even copy the artwork, but they cannot create another boxset or another Vinyl from that one.

• Portishead wins because every copy of that boxset had to be purchased.
• The pirates loose because their talent stops at distributing other peoples files (and Portishead's product isn't a file).

Carry on kidding yourself, Wolf, but I have faith you might figure it all out someday :-D