Just something to think about. Also, piracy only affects those trying to make a sale.
Very incorrect. In the case of music, the loss of revenue means the artist gets paid less. In a world where piracy ran rampant, businesses would not come to the market will new ideas because they would get stolen. When businesses lose money that means people don’t get paid. Despite the anti-business sediment in this thread, typically when businesses do good, our economy does well.
Also he wouldn't lose the theft thing... your just ignorant. Or english isn't your first language and you don't understand the words quite right i guess. When you get arrested for piracy you get charged for copyright infringement. Not theft. Copyright infringement infact is a much much less serious crime. Seriously... someone who steals a CD vs a store... will be punished much harsher then someone who downloads a CD online.
I don’t get why people argue semantics so much. Honestly, it is theft. But let’s assume it’s not theft. Does that mean piracy is great or does that mean your still breaking laws and being unethical?
Please show me where they say this. I guarantee they don’t. Microsoft has made Vista impossible to pirate. I’m sure that wasn’t cheap. Also, what do you do? Let’s assume the business your at has a piracy problem. Is it really going to increase sales as you say? Do you think your business will passively fight it pretending to care to gain political clout? Honestly, your money or job is on the line, is it good?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070212-8813.html Like this one... published in one of the most well known journals n the US. The same studies are EVERYWHERE... sometiems they even show slight (thoguht statstically indistinguishable) increases in sales.
Just because you found one article in a scientific journal doesn’t mean piracy is good. Scientific journals are like anything else. People want to get publicity, make waves. You’ll see quite a few more negative articles than positive. But I’ll look at the article anyway.
“Analyzing data from the final four months of 2002, the researchers estimated that P2P affected no more than 0.7% of sales in that timeframe.”
This is in 2002. believe it or not, P2P was still in its relative infancy. As such, its effects on businesses have grown as cable internet has become more popular and more P2P networks have popped up. Additionally, what’s .7% of billions? Hundreds of millions? How can you say hundreds of millions of dollars aren’t a big deal?
You didn't even have to pay radiohead ANYTHING for that album. Yet it still was pirated thousands of times over. Why?
Simple, it’s easier to get the pirated version. Yes, that’s right, it is easier. Pirates probably have their P2P programs running nonstop (files have to come from somewhere). So all they have to do is type in a search and click download. It would take time to go to the Radiohead site and download. Not withstanding, that is assuming that everyone knew Radiohead was giving away the music for free.
You know the one benefit to pirating (samplers who buy) doesn’t even exist now a days. Because back then there was no other download service. Now with ITunes, you can sample typically 20% of the song before you make the purchase. Not withstanding you could search youtube and sample 100% of the song one time without having it in a format that is 100% complete.
