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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
I don't understand what you are saying here? Are you saying that the bad economy justifies piracy? Or that I said that, Because i wasn't saying that. Also I wasn't trying to say that people pirate because of the bad economy. I was trying to say that content industries can't expect much growth if the overall economy isn't growing or if average purchasing power doesn't increase.
Young people will pirate. The problem is that industries focus too much on younger demographics. What they should be worried about is older consumers who buy less and less content because they increasingly are having to work more and still make less money, meaning they have less free time to consume and less discretionary income.
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Thats exactly what I was asking you, what you were trying to say. To me it read like a justification of piracy. In a way it still does. You raise a very good point about the content industry but I doubt anyone on their end cares. They know what they know and thats all they know. Its not the young or the old, its everyone. Who cares why they pirate, who cares about the economy, who cares about any of that. Fact is they lose money, so they say, and thats all they care about.
Honestly I think they ought to focus more on chocking out better products. IMHO theres no reason why a book should have a one or two star rating on Amazon. Dont these people have quality control? And CDs? Look at new music out nowadays, all the people you hear on the radio. Go look them up on Amazon. Now you tell me how many good ratings they got. Last time I checked most were around three and a half stars. Most times when I buy CDs I found the content to be flat out junk and wished I had my money back.
http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-horro...eality-110120/ , check that out and then read the comment by The Truth in the comments section.
"We don't want your whole overpriced CD full of album filler & 2 semi-decent songs...
DEAL WITH IT!!!"
Thats a direct quote and thats exactly how I felt when I bought most of my CDs. I always found one or two good songs but most were filler and terrible. One had the audacity to just be all the songs twice but in different languages. I cant tell you how ripped off I felt when I played that one. I still buy CDs but I wait until theyre dirt cheap now. What about all the double dipping going on with all these various editions of CDs? Regular, Deluxe with two new songs, Super Ultra Great Job edition with two songs and an interview never before seen plus commentary on a McDonald's breakfast they got that morning, do we need all this crap? Do it right the first time, thats what I think. But just as these people dont care whos doing the piracy they sure wont take time to make sure the product is worth buying. You know, I buy Kindle books now and Im reading one at the moment. I paid around $10 for it. I couldve bought it off of the MarketPlace for around $4, $1 for the book and $3 for shipping, but I wanted it then. Im disgraced and almost insulted by the amount of formatting errors I see in this book. And the fact that I paid over twice what I should have doesnt make me feel any better. Thats bull IMHO.
That whole rant could read as a justification for piracy as well. Im not justifying anything. Im just saying that most of these industries need to look inward and fix the problems that people complain about. CDs, most are junk. Books, prices, formatting, whichever else. Then you can worry about the pirates.