You are acting like this "epidemic" is something new. piracy has been massive since the invention of the audio tape and floppy disk. I guess you don't remember
Don't copy that floppy, yeah, it was as big a failure then as anti piracy is today.
It doesn't help that quite often people in PAL regions (UK and some of Europe) will quite often not even get the chance to buy a game legally, for instance
chrono trigger was never released here and will probably not be this time round.