kitler53 on 23 January 2012
| Baalzamon said: I think companies are going to be absolutely baffled when their sales actually decrease if/when all these piracy rules finally do pass. A huge majority of people who pirate things would have never purchased the product in the first place. That effectively costs the companies nothing. Another chunk does it to effectively demo things. If they like it enough, they will go out and purchase hard copies, and possibly even purchase future games from the same company because it was so enjoyable. The percentage of people pirating stuff that would actually go out and purchase that material immediately given that pirating didn't exist is miniscule. Plus, none of this costs the economy a damned thing, so people need to stop saying that. Phantom sales that you think you would have had is a bullshit thing to base stuff off of. I also couldn't resist figuring out that if this costs the economy $100 billion annually, where is every single American magically going to have $333 more to spend on stuff, when the average person already spends every last penny they make? Yea, I know that part of this spending would equate to profit for companies, therefore some people having more money, but not even close to all of it will...so they just think it will magically appear out of nowhere? |
i've seen piracy lead to lost sales - when my friend canceled their cable quoting "i can get if for free online" that's a lost sale. when they take that money and buy beer or whatever it still hurts the media companies and that can lead to a lack of advancement or even lost jobs as you see when studios shut down...
or if we we're to follow your logic then if the governement were to double taxes it wouldn't hurt the economy or you cause it's not like your wage was dimished .. it's just going to the government and still being spend afterall...
I repeat: piracy is not 1:1 a lost sale but it certainly not 1:0 either.
