"Today you can buy virtually any media electronically." if and only if you live in the U.S. and Europe (& other first world countries), have an international credit card and a lot of other stuff you seem to take for granted.

I know some people that had a Megaupload account, and they were paying a third party that had a valid internet payment method that set up the account for them. They didn't have any way to legally pay for all those services you're mentioned (and probably didn't have the means either).

A reasonable functioning market would mean that people in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay would pay less than people in the U.S and Europe, but we're still at a stage where it isn't so (I've heard that China and some other Asian countries do have differentiated pricing, I guess they're a more attractive market).

It's not so black-and-white.

I still believe that Kim Dotcom was commiting copyright infringement and he did make millions doing that. I disagree with the means and the punishment.

I also spend hundreds of dollars in media and entertainment (though I will admit to having unpaid copyrighted media), but I'm not representative of the kind of people I see using Megaupload.