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Because piracy is often a service problem and not always a price one. If a pirate can offer you a better service, people will pay for it.
If you only see piracy as a price issue, then it would make sense why you dont understand why people do it.
Take for example, pretty shitty android boxes preloaded with various kodi streams. Say if you speak a niche language in the U.S for example, and want media in that language, some people would be willing to pay for a (pretty shitty) android tv box that has warez steams of saidncontent because thr legal methods isnt easy to obtain nor have the technological knowlege to properly pirate.