No, it's not.
If anything, continued or increased economic slowdown will increase piracy, as people have both less disposable income and less regard for increasingly abused intellectual property rights.
If anything, continued or increased economic slowdown will increase piracy, as people have both less disposable income and less regard for increasingly abused intellectual property rights.
I think you may be right, but only if you consider piracy to not be part of "the economy". My understanding at least is that it very much is.