Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
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..."
|
There are those who have no problem with counterfeit items - but there is no way to make a system that everyone will buy into.
I would not think appealing to someone's greed would work.
Appealing to someone's desire for
status...that's a different story. If publishers could be arsed to put out a good product with no typos, working TOC and *gasp* fixed the SFF maps - they could then compete. If I had the option of going to any legit seller and buy a quality item with no concerns or wasted time - that's what I'm going to do. I can't imagine digging through tons of files to find the correct virus free version I'm looking for.