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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
Because paying for someones completed work is the right thing to do. If we do not pay authors, they will have little incentive to write and we will have little to read. Because owning someones work for free was pretty hard to do, not to mention illegal, up until the advent of the internet.
Because you do the right thing not because it is easy or cheap but because it is the right thing to do.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because some people - in fact, the overwhelming majority of people - are honest, and don't approve of breaking the law.
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You think like that, and I do too. (At least, almost all the time.)
Many other people don't *ever* think like that, and they just want their products as fast, cheap, easy and restrictionfree as possible.
There are many initiatives that prove that these demands can be met; just give the purchased product more value than the pirated product, and you're there. I am sure more and more people will then stop pirating.
The only people that will *always* pirate are the ones thinking that they are entitled to have any digital "stuff" for free, because it isn't a physical object.
They will go to any lenghts to get it for free, even if in the end the pirated product is more expensive because of extra time spent to download, crack, hack, update, and patch it and the frustration that comes with it. (Maybe even doing it twice or thrice because they downloaded a non-working version...) With those people, no (combination of) advantage(s) will ever beat free, and that can't be changed.