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Kasz216 on 23 December 2009
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Senlis said:
Kasz216 said:
Senlis said:
I still haven't heard any reason you should get something for free, just more explanations how it doesn't hurt anybody. Oh well, I guess it doesn't matter to you.

In a perfect world shouldn't everyone get what they want for free?

I don't pirate, yet at the same time I don't see why it's morally wrong for more people to get or expierence something, for free, at no cost to anybody.

 

I mean, if we had a way of copying medicine for free and giving it to anybody for free... would anyone be against this?

If we could copy food over the internet, would that really be immoral?

The only reason "morality" comes in to play is because it's something trivial.

 

It's really ironic.

 

It's immoral to copy things we value less, yet moral to copy things we value more.

 

I mean, should jesus of been arrested for making a copy of a fish that was obviously caught by someone.

What about the people who reseached and developed the formula for the medicine.  Shouldn't they be compensated?

The perfect would you describe has a name.  Communism.  Unfortunately, since this is not a perfect world, Communism doesn't work on a large scale.

They are compensated.  By the western world.

Lots of drug companies make back their money on those who can pay and are willing to pay, and then liscense out their drugs at near cost for areas that can't or won't pay.  In fact, such medicines help the areas and make them more economically stable to where one day they may be able to pay for said medicines.

 

Microsoft has an adage "Don't pirate, but if you do pirate, pirate us."

 

Microsoft would much perfer you buy their products like Office and Windows.  They would also much rather have you PIRATE their software then say, use linux or open office, or pirate somebody else.

A decent number of pirates can be "converted" into market purchasers later down the line.

For those who don't and instead pirate, the majority of the people wouldn't of bought it in the first place, and instead either went with a free option or just left the arena all together.

 

What would happen to people who pirate games if they no longer could?  Are they likely to start paying for these games?  Or are they more likely to move into the realms of free games.  Or just stop playing games all together? 

 

When people pirate... they pirate because the perceived value of the product is not = to the cost people charge for it.  Most people WANT to pay money for stuff.  People are socially conditioned to want to purchase stuff.  Things unpurchased are inherently less valuable to a person.

A game bought is going to be more enjoyable then if you pirated the very same game.

Removing piracy doesn't actually increase the value of product in most peoples eyes, which is why most studies show that stopping thousands and thousands of pirates doesn't really increase sales.

The way to combat piracy isn't to try and stop it externally, but try and increase the value of your product to a consumer.

 

Think of it this way.  Have you ever been to a friends house, played a game he bought that you thought was going to suck... but then played it and went out and bought it the next day?