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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
A counterfeit handbag would be understood to be a bad thing, but not a counterfeit computer file that is exactly the same as the real one. I don't think many people care whether the handbag manufacturer gets paid or not, they just want a good handbag.
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Actually I know far too many people who are perfectly happy with counterfeit handbags (I got it cheap, and it fools other people). Just as I know people who think nothing of doing illegal downloads.
Appealing to people's greed doesn't work. Pirate sites appeal to people's greed now; they just don't bother to think about the likelihood that an artist will quit writing (plenty of other writers out there, what's one less?). Better off appealing to their sympathy; Show Bob Cratchit's family meal to be meager, but the family is satisfied, and a happy Cratchit will live to write again.
Or show Bob's writer friend Ed, who didn't get paid, and now works in the poorhouse with no time to write, and other people asking about him: "Whatever happened to Ed Patchet?" "His books were all ripped off. He had to give it up. He's shoveling coal at McGreedy's now..."