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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Piracy can hurt the creators, but, it isn't always as much as people claim.
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Correction, it is never as much as they claim, some people would never buy that product, so no sales loss there and some people like your example still buy it to replace the pirate version so no loss of sales there either.
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Most people, you give them an easy to use system, that gives them quality content, and they'll time and time again use that over pirating. Why do you think iTunes is as big as it is?
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It just amazes me the way the same mistakes keep getting made by companies, you look at all the hoops people go through to try and get the books they want and it reminds me of some of the copy protection systems you see on computer games.
Some of them being so bad that the simplest solution for a lot of people with the proper version was to get a cracked version that disabled the cd-check and if they have had to take that step then whats the next likely one for them to take next time round?