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Originally Posted by gouzos
One must also realize that the money that is lost is only the money that would have been gained if piracy didn’t exist.
So, the metalhead that downloads a Madonna song for fun doesn’t cost any money. Neither does a kid who downloads professional software to dabble at home.
The metalhead would never have bought the Madonna album and the kid would never pay $399 for Corel just to crop his photos.
So All they actually do is in fact help popularize the product while not costing anything.
The ones who cost the writers money are people who have decided to ditch legal music altogether, professional who make money out of copied software and bootleggers who actually sell an illegal product.
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It's not only about money, but also (if not for the most part) about
power and
control.
What both sides really want, aside from money, is control over the goods, and the power to grant it.
A downloaded song, even if it's never listened by the downloader, is still a song out of the publisher's control.
And that's unacceptable.
So, better to lose a client and to have one less fan than to actually have a piece of music out of sight.
