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Kaiser · 27/08/2008 06:16 AM

discuss.

roberth · 27/08/2008 06:52 AM

i saw that as well, it made me laugh

Vertigo · 27/08/2008 06:53 AM

Very Very True

PSPkiller · 27/08/2008 06:53 AM

if only...

*sigh*

edit: just thought of something. if you think of piracy like that i suppose it wouldnt count as stealing. think, everythime you take a photo of something you're not breaking the law, you're simply making your own copy of what you see for your own personal enjoyment.

*un-sigh*

demonchild · 27/08/2008 06:54 AM

Well someone had to buy it right?

Vertigo · 27/08/2008 06:56 AM

demonchild Wrote:Well someone had to buy it right?

S7* · 27/08/2008 07:07 AM

Correct.

Assassinator · 27/08/2008 07:37 AM

They don't loose the original in a physical sense, but they do loose stuff if you look at it this way: If the guy didn't pirate it, he would've bought it (assume he really wants the thing). Thus you loose the value of how much you can sell the thing for, and thus equivalent of loosing the actual thing.

You may argue that he can always sell to someone else, but that's besides the point, because the seller can usually obtain as much stock as he/she wants, so the only thing that matters is how much he/she can sell, and 1 less sale is 1 less bunch of profit.

But in reality not everyone who can't pirate will buy. Lets say every 1 in 10 who pirate would otherwise buy, then every 10 units pirated would equal 1 unit 'borrowed', so it's not as bad as directly stealing.

roberth · 27/08/2008 07:51 AM

I can relate there...i have so much stuff on my HDD that i would never have bought, and probably only downloaded for the sake of it really

PSPkiller · 27/08/2008 07:54 AM

Assassinator Wrote:They don't loose the original in a physical sense, but they do loose stuff if you look at it this way: If the guy didn't pirate it, he would've bought it (assume he really wants the thing). Thus you loose the value of how much you can sell the thing for, and thus equivalent of loosing the actual thing.

You may argue that he can always sell to someone else, but that's besides the point, because the seller can usually obtain as much stock as he/she wants, so the only thing that matters is how much he/she can sell, and 1 less sale is 1 less bunch of profit.

But in reality not everyone who can't pirate will buy. Lets say every 1 in 10 who pirate would otherwise buy, then every 10 units pirated would equal 1 unit 'borrowed', so it's not as bad as directly stealing.

makes sense. a recent ad campaign in the uk (google Knock-Off Nigel) would put leaflets in the cases of dvds in shops. when you bought the dvd you'd get the leaflet that said, basically, 'Great, obviously you're not knock off nigel. when you dowload a film illegaly its equivalent of walking out of a shop without paying.' personally i don't think that's true. because, when you pirate a film the film company don't actually lose anything, instead the don't gain anything (profit). but, think of a dvd. part of its cost is the cost of making the disk, making the box and printing the label. albeit a small cost; if you walked out a shop without paying the film company would never be re-imbursed for the cost of making the physical dvd.

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