Mr Khan said:
Right, and would he have bought a PS2, Wii, DS, or PSP if he could not pirate on them? Would he have had the revenue to buy all the games he had bought? At best he would have bought a few games more legitimately on one system at the expense of legit PS3 games It's a wash, i'm telling you. |
and i'm telling you that's not true. this isn't a money issue, he makes plenty. i've said it before but maybe you didn't see it...i'm quite well off as is really all of my friends. when i say well off i specifically mean household incomes of $100k to $300k -- i'd hope you'd agree that's plenty enough to buy a couple of games/movies/songs a year.
and yet across all my friends only two households don't pirate; myself because i have a huge stick up my ass on the subject and one other who is a lawyer and says he's too afraid to loose his job/career. all of the rest pirate their media and that makes me sad and angry. the problem is that it's just too easy to do, there is almost no risk of getting caught, and they get free shit out of it.
what i'm telling you is that as long as they feel they can get away with it they won't change no matter what business model content developers create. seriously, they pirate free content just because they don't like watching commercials. promise you though, if they had to...they'd pay.
