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Originally Posted by pilotbob
The myth of "piracy" of digital stuff, music, software, ebooks, whatever... is that you loose "$X" estimated based on how many pirated copies you think are out there. Truth is, if your software, etc, wasn't available to someone to get for free from a pirate, the pirate wouldn't download it. But, they certainly wouldn't buy it. If they were going to buy it, they would have done that in the first place.
BOb
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Ah the old. I would never have bought it in the first place excuse.
While it is true that you can't say that number of downloads=number of lost sales I've always had a problem with this excuse.
Everybodies time is finite and we choose how to spend our free time. Surely if there is a piece of entertainment you choose to fill up your free time with then it is worth rewarding the creator. If it is not worth anything to the person downloading then why download it in the first place. People tend to download for download sake (I know people who will just download every game for the DS whether it is good or not)
If it is worth your time to view/read then it is worth paying for. Otherwise there are a million other things to spend your money on. In this world of instant gratification people just want everything and they want it now and preferably for as little as possible/free.