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I have to pirate some intellectual properly simply because it's impossible for me to legally obtain it for any price. That's the reality of living in a "wrong"
by kozak 10y ago
I have to pirate some intellectual properly simply because it's impossible for me to legally obtain it for any price. That's the reality of living in a "wrong" country.
- wfunction 10y agoIf it was made available to you for 1000x its local price would you then stop pirating it? If not, then is the lack of "any" price the problem? Or do you have higher expectations than you've stated here?
- izacus 10y agoHow about being made available under the same price people in other countries pay and not being treated like a second class human?
- ucaetano 10y agoDifferent countries have different costs, taxes, wealth and willingness to pay.
- marcosdumay 10y agoWhat difference does it make when the people on those countries send you money through an international credit card?
- kodablah 10y agoAlso with ad-based viewing (e.g. YouTube), different countries have significantly different ad conversion ratios.
- wfunction 10y ago> How about being made available under the same price people in other countries pay and not being treated like a second class human? To be clear, are you saying there is some kind of fundamental human principle that if some product or service is made available to N members of the public, it MUST be made available to ALL people worldwide at the same price (with perhaps adjustment for local differences in tax, etc.)? Do you not feel the vendor also has every right and privilege to NOT bother doing such a thing for your convenience? And does it really seem 100% fair to the vendor that you're forcing them to choose between either (1) letting you steal their product, or (2) going through the trouble of making it available to you? Do people not have a right to produce things for less than 100% of the world population without allowing them to get stolen by the rest?
- kozak 10y agoLet's say, at 2x the USA price it would still be less hassle for me to pay than to pirate. I'm quite modest middle class in my country.
- zanny 10y agoThe countries that don't have this material are also the ones where you can pirate with impunity. The only ones losing in that situation is the content producer, because you can get all their stuff for free with impunity and they are missing out on revenue on purpose. I do not believe it is proper to be "sad" about the state of affairs. The content producers are obviously profitable to make their material in the first place knowing in advance billions of people will have no legal avenue to purchase it. They make the rational choice to produce solely based off the potential customer base, which simply does not include you if you are outside the Amero-European media sphere, which is only nice for you since you can then get it for free.
- stevetursi 10y ago> The countries that don't have this material are also the ones where you can pirate with impunity. That isn't true, or at least wasn't true two years ago when I wanted to watch Black Mirror in the US and there was no legal way to obtain it here.
- jordigh 10y agoYou just had to label your own products in a matter that confused consumers that you were selling the same thing as someone else, didn't you? Or perhaps you labeled them to indicate that they were created in a region that you didn't have the right to claim?