Katilian on 04 September 2007
| BenKenobi88 said: Hypothetically speaking: If pirating was impossible - if downloading mp3s, movies, games, whatever was completely impossible for every person in the world - there would be an increase in music, movies, and games sales. You say you download something because you wouldn't buy it anyway. That may be...but if you had absolutely no access to certain music...and your only option is to buy it...would you? I'm certain many people would buy more music because they couldn't just quick download it for free instead. If piracy is significantly reduced, I'm sure you'd see an increase in media sales. |
The issue in regard to the 'I wouldn't buy it anyway' argument isn't usually about whether sales would increase or not, it is in argument to the ridiculous numbers that are produced in regards to losses. This is really evident in the software industry when you have applications like photoshop, which are priced far out of what most people would consider reasonable, espically given they only use it to do simple tasks that other cheaper/free software could do anyway. If photoshop was suddenly unpirateable tomorrow, I can assure you that while sales would most likely increase, they would be no where near the amount of pirated copies that there are today.
