My one and only argument is, is that music CD's and games are way overpriced. Most sheetmusic isnt, and thats why sheetmusic doesnt have much of a priracy problem.
Given its spuriousness, lack of corroboration and sheer fatuity, it is perhaps just as well that it is your "one and only" argument, although I would be wary of dignifying it by describing it as an "argument", since it is a mere statement of opinion without any support.
Since another member here has rightly criticised the sloppiness of your presentation, I will translate your post as
My one and only argument is that music CDs and games are way overpriced whereas most sheet music is not, which is why the latter does not suffer from much from a piracy problem.OK - so now let's unpick it.
To state that anything is "overpriced" is meaningless unless credible illustrations are put forward to demonstrate that it is the case and why it is the case. CDs (even those without apostrophes) are overpriced compared to what? What evidence do you have in terms of the total costs of producing the end product that you see on the record shop shelf? You certainly provide none. Those costs will, of course, vary immensely from one product to another, but they can and often do include (but are not necessarily limited to) artists' fees and expenses, royalties to composer/s (if the recorded material is in copyright), venue hire, instrument hire / tuner/technician fees (in the case of piano and organ recordings), transportation, recording equipment/consumables/peripherals, editing, marketing/PR and manufacture/artwork/printing - that's before the finished product goes to a distributor who charges and thence to a retailer who also charges; if the shelf price of a "full price" CD is therefore around £15-£16, who should be surprised? Have a think, for example, about the 3-CD boxed set of my String Quintet which involved almost three hours of music, six artists of the highest calibre, a splendid quality recording and an expensively produced CD booklet that runs to some 40 pages - the performance was prepared specially for the recording, so rehearsal costs had to be added to all the others; it retails at around £45, which doesn't sound a lot to me. In the case of CDs that sell in their tens or hundreds of thousands, those costs would likely be easier to absorb than in that of those that sell in their hundreds or thousands.
Likewise, you offer no evidence in support of your contention that most sheet music is not overpriced, so this holds no water either; again, to ascertain the extent to which sheet much is overpriced, underpriced or reasonably priced, you would need to examine and analyse the all costs involved in its production, distribution and retailing. Since The Sorabji Archive has been cited above, I can confirm that only our lowest priced items have increased in price since setup and that, as we produce mainly bound photocopied scores to order, our capital costs include reproducing and binding equipment and our running costs include shipping and all materials; most of our customers worldwide seem to be happy with our pricing, although we have occasionally in the past been notified of concerns about these from customers in US where all of the costs that we incur (other, perhaps, than shipping) would be much less than they are in UK.
What makes you think that sheet music is not subject to piracy? I can assure you that it is so, although to what extent I cannot tell you. What effect such piracy may have is uncertain; we do know for a fact that certain peopole and organisations have pirated certain items that we have supplied to others, but that has fortunately not discouraged others from purchasing the items that we supply directly from us, so the majority of people who want them are prepared to pay for it.
Best,
Alistair