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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Right.
So single world pricing will main the poorer countries won't get legal versions and will resort to piracy.
With higher licensing prices to make up for the loss of that revenue leading to increased piracy in the developed world, everybody loses.
Fortunately, the EU effort (whatever it leads to, if anything) will only apply within the EU so the damage will be limited to EU-produced content.  |
I just checked Amazon India where "The Girl on the Train" is selling for 299.50 rupees. which converts to about $US4.70. Amazon currently want $6.99 in te US. The price in India is lower, but not so much lower as to cater for the impoverished. Undeveloped countries quite often have a middle class which, although small in percentage terms, is larger than the whole population of some more developed countries. Prices appear to be set to sell to this relatively affluent middle class, not to the much larger mass of impoverished who anecdotally read pirate versions on their cellphones. Single world pricing will probably make little difference to this situation.