No one necessarily has to pay out of their nose to get microsoft products.
i Windows 7 for about $15 through my valid and legal IEEE membership. Though later Windows 7 was removed from the membership (it says "for now"), windows server 2008 r2 is still on it as well as various iterations of vista and xp.
I agree that the concept of simply converter a us$ price to a PKR price is insane. If microsoft can offer people in Mexico, china and india preferential prices they can do so for us as well.
The reason they do not is that they do not see much of a market here. As long as we are pirating within the country they are not bothered. it is only when the stuff pirated here finds its way to the US the problem begins.
Nazareth you might find it hard to believe, but when i visit by local bootleg software store, the people who spend the most are from the US and UK. They are not Non-resident Pakistanis. They buy software by the truck loads. I saw a couple of kids converting 20 pounds to rupees and they went ballistic when they found they can pretty much buy 20 movies for 20 quid!
I am not justifying piracy, i would love to buy all my software legally. But do not expect me to pay $60 for an x360 game when my salary is about a $1000 per month (and this is at the higher end of the pay scales here).
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