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Kasz216 on 23 December 2009
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Senlis said:
Kasz216 said:

You can however.

 

A) I don't pirate.

 

B) It's current economic theory.

 

You may as well lump people who beleive in evolution as "People who just don't want to beleive in god."

 

The only arguement among legitamite economists on piracy is whether or not piracy inherently devalues a product and if so, what that particular amount it devalues the product is.

 

It makes more sense in the real world, to have people pirate your stuff rather then not use it at all, if they were never going to purchase it in the first place.'

 

I'm familiar with the joke.  It doesn't change the fact that economic theory is against you in this arguement.

 

Example of the above microsoft statement.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198000211&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

 

Similarly this applies to publishers and developers who make games.  As people become more attached to a publishers games they are more likely to actually purchase them. 

 

In general.  Take this quote.

"We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products. What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software."

But replace liscensing software with "Purchase future games."

 

Further backed up by this actually.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/05/01/microsoft-to-pirates-youre-bad-but-youll-still-get-windows-7/

Microsoft is going to allow people who pirate Windows 7 to get security updates.  Crazy stuff.