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Originally Posted by Sonist
Hm, I am not sure it's all this simple.
Depending on the market, piracy may at times cause price reductions.
For instance, if it was not for rampant piracy, the music industry would likely not have agreed to the $0.99 per song price point pushed by Apple. And likely we would still have heavy DRM on all songs.
In fact, the threat of piracy was the big stick wielded by Apple, when the music labels were attempting to force prices of $2+ per song at the Apple Store last year.
A to modding, people do it for many reasons, often enough unrelated to piracy. I've jailbroken both my iPhones, not to steal a few sub-$5 applications, but to enable features I would not otherwise be able to have.
Oh, and "voting with your wallet," while useful in a reasonably open market, is at other times the equivalent to cutting your nose, to spite your face....
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Correct, I modded both of my "old" Xboxes, not to be able to play pirated games, which I had no interest in, but to be able to run the very, VERY excellent XBMC system on it so I could use the Xboxes as mediacenters.
That was before the PopCorn Hour came around tho, now, both my Xboxes are collecting dust in the attic
