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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I'm sure it won't have an effect on their economy... I'm a bit more concerned about how much it will effect a producer's economy...
And as I commented earlier, the idea that items would not be purchased if they were not available for free is a flawed argument. I'd hate to think the Swiss are that stupid... but there you go.
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Well, it depends on the person. I know lots of people that only get stuff because they can get it for free, and as soon as the free way is no longer an option (DRM locks them out, etc), they simply do without. Typically those type of people have the mindset that it is cool to have if they can, but just not cool enough to be worth their money. I remember messing around with a friend's computer, because he was showing me all the games he had under MAME, and most of the games he'd never played, or only played once (some MAME frontends track number of plays and when it was last played). That seems to be the mentality of many many pirates. Back when I did emulation stuff, we called it "pokerom", where people had to have it because they could have it, not because they wanted to play them or had use for it. They just gotta get 'em all.
I mean, have you ever looked at various torrents for ebooks and the like? They'll have gigs upon gigs of ebooks, basically being more than anyone can read in a lifetime. And viewing the traffic activity, you can see most people have downloaded the entire thing. I can see where it would be easier to just have one big torrent when creating the initial torrent, but at the same time, the people can pick which they want to download. They don't have to get everything. Its pokerom all over again. You can't tell me that if piracy wasn't an option that those people would go out and buy every one of those books.
I know that this doesn't apply to everyone, but it does apply to a large chunk of people, to where even if not the majority it is still large enough to not be ignored.
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Originally Posted by Fayth
Ummmm wow. Yah, I have no idea why I kept saying Sweden. I'm also extremely disturbed by the fact that I still didn't notice it after being called out on it the first time... I was actually talking about it in Skype with a friend around the same time I responded to this thread, and I didn't make the same mistake...
/facepalm
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Eh, it happens.