At the end of the day the app developer or intellectual property owner is at the losing end of this battle regardless of how one feels about the matter. If they chose to peddle their wares in a medium that involves almost immediate returns via the internet, then they should be aware of the equally immediate losses.
No choice but to accept it or adapt.
I just hope that developers don't go to the extremes that media has gone to blowing millions and adopting fascist plans to control the internet and spy on peoples computers. That's disgusting.
Do you understand that there are two classes of developers for Android?
Let's take Rovio as one example. Within weeks of releasing the ad-supported Angry Birds on Android, they were pulling in over a million (US$) per month and making more here than they were on their paid-only iPhone version.
They are in the small minority.
The overwhelming majority of app developers we're talking about here are small time operators, who might love to become Rovio someday, but who for the most part work for peanuts.
And it's that second class that we are constantly enforcing copyright protection for around here, they seem to be the big target. When they get discouraged enough, they simply fold up.
I don't know who these Warner Brothers sized developers are that you think needs to just suck up and learn how to deal with things.
As far as the earlier comment that if someone makes a good paid app, someone will just copy it for free - code pirates don't release things for free, they tend to charge for them, and they get kicked out of the Market for their troubles.
You have many fine theories, but I don't see how to relate them to the way things really are, where the guys getting ripped off might actually make anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand bucks for their troubles.
Before you worry about their potential fascism, try instead to understand what is going on here before demonizing for things that they haven't done over amounts of money they haven't made, and try less to lecture them about the state of the buying public - that part, they probably know firsthand.