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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I have downloaded games (from the darknet) to finally end up buying it because I liked it. Had I not been able to "pre-play" it, I would never have bought it.
I have downloaded music files (from the darknet) to finally end up buying all the CD's from that artist. Had I not downloaded it, I probably had never heard of that artist and I wouldn't have bought all those CD's.
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And millions of other people have too. The big record labels and movie studios fail to see two very important facts:
1) Piracy can't be stopped
2) DRM hurts only the legitimate customers
No amount of DRM can stop pirated copies getting out into the wild. These companies should turn the tables and put out high quality media that will turn pirates into purchasers and fans.
Take Neil Gaiman and Cory Doctorow, two authors who have made a lot of their material freely available online. I have a read a bit of Doctorow's free stuff and will now probably go out and buy his stuff in future. I got a free book from Jeffrey Carver from a link he posted to this site. I haven't read it yet, but it looks like it will be a great read, and if it is, I will be more than happy to pay full price for the next book of his I read.
Contrast that with two books I badly want to read but can't find in a DRM-free format...(
The Stories of English and
Banana)...I would pay any reasonable price for DRM-free copies of these books, but the publishers have chosen not to make the product available to me. So I will read something that I can get a hold of and save my money for an artist or publisher who respects me and their artists.