Kasz216 said: Seriously, piracy has hurt the PSP.... like Piracy has hurt the Ipod.
It hasn't. Infact it's GREATLY boosted it's sales.
How many people would be buying Ipods right now if it was set up so it could only play Itunes songs, and CDs registered through Itunes? |
That's damn right.
At the going rate, it would take about $24,000 to fill an 80GB Ipod.
Let's look at some other things.
Broadband internet access: Without P2P, it's doubtful that this service would have expanded to the point that it has right now. People certainly wouldn't pay so much money just to make web pages load a little faster.
High-capacity hard drives: Prior to P2P, almost no one needed more than a 20GB hard drive, and most OEM PCs shipped with 4-10GB hard drive. Nowadays, you can't really buy one with less than 160GB. This wouldn't have happened had it not become necessary for people to store large amounts of media files.
CD and DVD recordable drives: Without the need to backup large amounts of media files, these would never have become as prominent. All people needed before P2P was a floppy drive to back up text files.
Portable Media Players: It should be pretty obvious that the vast majority of songs and videos that people are carrying around were acquired via P2P.
Consoles owned: Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PSP, DS, PS3