| snakenobi said: thats bullshit.they are trying to regulate everything but it won't work in the end
main reason piracy is this: income inequalities Rich class has most of the money of the country and they make films,songs,etc with it.the poor class that doesn't have money goes and pirates it at first people will accept it not to pirate fearing the law but after a while the income inequalities will grow too big and the gap between the classes will widen and they will know that regulations are to suppress them and taking a toll on their lives examples:occupy wall street,uprising's everywhere
what these protest and revolts will do it bring in a new government which will be fair.and if everybody would have money,they wouldn't pirate |
Being that the most active pirates I know have the money to buy a legitimate copy of the content for their desired use, I think claiming piracy exists because of income inequality is 100% BS ...
Whether you're talking about music, movies, books or videogames piracy is the results of businesses holding onto a broken and outdated business model. With the introduction of low cost high speed internet connections the marginal cost of producing an additional "sale" of content is very low and is getting cheaper all the time, and (at this point in time) content like books and songs have a marginal cost of nearly $0.00. What this means is that the content should be priced at the highest level where the vast majority of individuals see no value in "stealing" the content in order to maximize profit.
As an example of what I mean, music companies would probably sell far more than 4 times as much music if the songs were priced at $0.25 (and more than 10 times as much music if they were sold at $0.10) than they're selling at the $1 per song price.
Now, rather than try to adapt to the new market, companies are trying to force people to pay the prices they dictate by eliminating the black market competition who're selling the product at a healthy margin over the marginal cost; in most cases, the marginal cost is (roughly) $0.00 and the healthy margin is the money they generate from advertising.
The way to "solve" piracy is to tell the media companies to adapt or die ... If a pirate can afford to "sell" a copy of an album for (roughly) $0.00 why do they need to sell it for $15.00+
