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Originally Posted by Shaggy
.... It's only the group of people who only are in it for the money, or at least that's their primary motivation, that would stop.
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(bold emphasis mine)
I disagree. I think many who love to create without thought of money would be forced to stop, or at the very least devote far less time to, their creative endeavours.
Is that a bad thing? Maybe, maybe not and could be debated ad nauseum. It is simply the reality.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
In reality, I'm sure there are all kinds of people that fall into various places between the two extremes (80/20, 75/25, 50/50... etc). But for the discussion at hand, it overly complicates things to try and address every position that someone may fall in. It's easier to talk about it in terms of 100/0 and 0/100 with the implied understanding that it's more of a gray area in reality.
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Agreed, it is
easier to ignore the grey.
It is also much
easier for the discussion to equate every pirated download with a lost sale and every downloader as a criminal freeloader unwilling to pay for anything. Yet arguing that doesn't seem to be acceptable.
Cheers,
PKFFW