Piracy is a problem that is never going to go away. Everyone involved with the production of all media need to realize that and accept it. Stronger laws and more police devoted to enforcing those laws will do nothing to stop piracy. It is like fucking a bus garage. Nothing is accomplished.
What media producers need to do is find a way to earn a profit despite, perhaps even because of, piracy.
I am not a developer, so I have no idea. But I can offer a few person insights that may help point you in the right direction.
I am a collector. That my DVD collection is as small as it is, and it's a decent size, just shows how poor I am. I put most of my DVDs into slim jewel cases to save space and while it looks spiff, I can see it's a temporary solution. Eventually the collection will fill the shelves again and I'll be right back where I started.
I suspect that most media sales have to do with idiots like me who might be forced to devote whole rooms in their home to media storage. Books, DVDs, CDs, comics, VHS tapes, Games for over ten different video game consoles, etc.
When a collector gets to be my age, they look at their collection and realize what a wasted life we've led. All we have is a huge collection of stuff we HAD TO HAVE that we never use.
At this point, I would be all for downloadable content rather than outright media purchasing. Then I can get my living room back and I can watch whatever movie or play whatever game I want whenever I want. It's just that such services are not quite up to snuff yet. Netflix is too slow with the snail mail. Video stores are a joke. Movie downloads, such as Time Warner Cable's On Demand services, are too limited in their selection with hobbled features, such as the fast forward and rewind not working right.
But, if a good, fast download service were available with an exhaustive library at my disposal for a monthly fee, I would be down with that idea. This would require a paradigm shift away from sell copies and toward renting everything. The media purveyors would need to get used to the idea and the consumer market would really need to get used to the idea. But I think that the market is already shifting this way, so I think media developers need to focus on making a system for this kind of thing that works well. Because selling individual media copies to an end user is becoming a thing of the past as piracy makes media content easily accessible for free.