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Originally Posted by Jaden
That's not a pro piracy argument - it was a statement against the "all pirates never pay for anything".
No one said that buying lots of stuff gives you a right to get everything else for free.
That was not "pro piracy, either" but "contra billions of cash are lost and if piracy was stopped for good, the cash will 'magically' appear in the pockets of the industry even though people will not have more money to spend than they now have".
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exactly. i pirate books sometimes. i also buy a sh*tload of books legally. my piracy exposes me to authors for whom i don't have the $10+ to risk willy nilly. i am more than happy to buy those authors legally. more often than not they are indie authors whose pockets my money is going directly into. does it excuse piracy? no. but its surely leading me to authors i never would have heard of otherwise. i'm not sitting here with a want-list of upcoming releases, rubbing my greedy hands together as i steal and contribute nothing. i sample the book because frankly far too often the sample given on amazon or elsewhere is bloody useless. i've read plenty of books that started awesome but fell to shambles shortly thereafter.
i make no apologies for who i am and what i do. i know i contribute plenty to authors and entertainment and thats good enough for me.
its not a pro-piracy or anti-piracy argument. its just a fact for me personally as well as many others. however i have no defense for those who sit there filling hard drive after hard drive of pirated xbox games, movies and everything that comes out. i think thats inexcusable and true abuse.
and no, cash wouldn't necessarily appear in pockets. people would simply go without. of course there are those who could easily afford the cd or whatever but don't buy it because they're cheap. but if someone truly doesn't have $10 for the new megadeth cd, they're not going to magically have that $10 if piracy doesn't exist.
i think i've just loosened up as i've gotten older. i used to be truly hardcore anti-piracy. but until i see some concrete, not pulled out of their butt numbers that piracy is killing entertainment ( which would require ignoring EVERY single report of ever increasing profits) i really don't care if someone helps themselves to a cd or book. life is too short and the entertainment media isn't going anywhere.