Unfortunately in digital age, a consumer can get the product by illegal means even if they can't afford it and producer doesn't really have a way to stop this illegal behavior.
What do you mean "in the digital age"? Ever heard the term "black market"?
Of course it's a market correction, it just happens to be an extralegal one. The laws of economics don't stop applying, and the market doesn't go away, just because a producer has been granted a government-enforced monopoly; no matter how appealing the notion is, making something illegal doesn't make it magically disappear.
I have little doubt that producers could find ways to successfully sell their products anyway, but that would require sucking it up and admitting that they have to compete on actual value, instead of relying on massive government market intervention.