yes, a lot of these media outlet decisions encourage piracy, but that's kind of a human thing - put a wall around something and some people are just going to try to make holes in the wall...sometimes they have to though, often for legal reasons, like licensing issues (especially music copyrights) or some agreement/contract they made 10 years ago or whatever has expired and they can't sell the game anymore, or my favorite case is the game No One Lives Forever and its sequel: nobody can agree on who has the rights to sell the game, been in and out of courts for years with no resolution in sight...typically stuff like that OR it could just be Disney Syndrome: just artificially, strategically taking shit out of print because reasons and shut up