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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Why not? Why should pirating be about money?
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Oy
OK, here are a few common sense assertions / beliefs about why some people pirate:
• They don't want DRM
• They don't want to pay more than X for the content
• It's not available to them (e.g. geo-restrictions)
• They want the artist to receive more or all of the revenues
• They want an open format
The point of the article I linked was that Radiohead resolved all of the above with the
In Rainbows -- and people went ahead and pirated it
en masse anyway.
Similarly most (but not all) of the above issues are currently resolved with Apple and Amazon music sales, yet music piracy clearly persists, at the same (if not higher) rates than before.
So, when J. Strnad states "this will piss of consumers and they will pirate it," I just don't see that as a persuasive argument, and no one who offers arguments along those lines has provided any evidence yet. IMO it is probably one of those things that "everyone knows" but is, in fact, wrong.