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Originally Posted by HarryT
With the very greatest respect, Moejoe, it is not a "fabrication". It is entirely true to say that the commercial content which is currently available for unauthorised download would not have been released had there not been a commercial market for it, and that the only reason that it can be downloaded is because it has been released for commercial sale. People who download it without paying for it are only able to do so on the backs of those who have paid for it. If nobody paid for that content, it would not exist.
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That is not what you said, that
is what you are saying now as an extrapolation.
What you said was:
Do you not think that it's true to say that the fact that so-called "piracy" enables people to get content for free only works because the majority of people do pay for what they consume? If nobody paid, there would be no works to pirate. Pirates are leeching from the honest purchasers.
And I will again re-state that what you said is fabrication. I do not think nor do I see it as fact that so-called piracy enables people to get content for free because the majority of (honest) people do pay for what they consume. Pirates, or people who share, pay for their content too, in droves and are originators of interest that flows out across the digital realm. Piracy, or what I like to call 'being a human being in the digital age' is a cornerstone of the digital experience. The big mistake you make is to think that pirates don't pay for products, and it's the same mistake I hear again and again from the uninformed. Read just one or two .nfo's and you know what you'll see? It won't be 'ha-ha-ha' we get this shit for free. This is what you'll see:
Please pay for the full product (or words to that affect).
And as to your last statment:
If nobody paid, there would be no works to pirate. Pirates are leeching from the honest purchasers.
Pirates are 'honest' purchasers, more so than non-pirates if you want a few recent reports to look over. And to be frank, there's nothing honest in being a consumer of corporate goods. There's very little honesty in a business model that pays writers a tiny percentage and then hikes up the prices to ridiculous levels for customers. And if nobody paid then maybe, just maybe, I wouldn't have to turn on the radio and listen to Lady 'buggering' Gaga every five minutes. Because that corporate musak is all about payment and not much art at all.