True, that's true. But in thirld-world countries i find it hard to happen. Here in Brazil, we even have people selling DVD's in the street(in metropolitan areas) for years without problems, imagine in the rest of south america and central. You would be surprised the amount of people who never had a computer, or don't know how to use one. Buy entertainment content here is only for the "rich".
I don't know how this works in America or Europe, but judging by the wave of "political correctness" originated from there, and coming to other countries, you must have balls of steel to "steal content" in the internet without proxies..
TL;DR everything is allowed in third-world countries