Hi Snappy
Before I sound too pro-pirate I’d like to restate that our company has been loosing cash to pirates for years
I think it is just propaganda, pure and simple, put out I’m not sure by who, that Pirates are out to “make a quick buck”.
Sure, in many of the more developing countries you can find stores selling just Pirate DVDs and people are definitely making cash out of Piracy in those. But what they are exploiting is not the lossless duplication, its the low bandwidth of they country.
So in effect that kind of residual piracy happens because it still relies on the physical.
When you look at the purely digital forms of Piracy, how can you make cash from that?
Its just not possible in any meaningful sense to profit from online piracy. And as soon as you try someone will come and do what your doing for free.
If you lay down you preconceptions about unauthorised duplication and think of what that means, it is actually pretty neat
Mat