This seems like common sense, when you're not fully developed, you spend time caring on the bottom of the necessity triangle, not the top.

MS knows this fairly well, and why they don't go after the low hanging pirates.

It may not be the copyright they care about so much, but strict Muslim countries might find western shows criminally objectionable on moral grounds.

in what we would consider "non-developed countries", the powers-that-be might not care about copyrights, but about getting their cut/bakshish. Particularly the "illegal" world doesn't take kind to outside "invaders" making money on someone else's turf.