People can and do download games for free all the time and Steam is still there. People pay for Spotify when music has been openly free since Napster was the zeitgeist.

It's not really possible for MP games, and it's increasingly hard and also dangerous to pirate an SP game. Idk who still does this.

And Spotify is way cheaper than iTunes, which is cheaper than CDs. Neither of them created piracy, but they did have it as leverage.