Trust me, a lot more money, time and man power goes into designing a product such as ableton compared to a CD player, and its worth every penny. When it come down to it no beginner producer is going to fork out lots of money for something they might suck at or end up not liking, unless they're like James Packer or something, and you dont want to keep having to learn a new peice of software everytime they can afford something "better", so what do you do? you have no choice really. If anyone takes themselves seriously as a producer, they are going to purchase the software oneday, so its win win, if they didn't originally pirate the software a company like ableton would not make the sale. At the end of the day it comes down to a moral dilema, I wouldn't feel right making money of something that is illegal, which is why I'm putting any money that I make from producing, back into it.