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The risk of being fined makes the cost of piracy non zero.
by siglesias 16y ago
The risk of being fined makes the cost of piracy non zero.
- kiba 16y agoManga site operators borne the risks, not the users. Also, private channels effectively reduce risks effectively to zero. There are also non-monetary costs to pirating, which are mostly viruses and time. However, they don't generally count toward monetary price, but they are cost nonetheless. That being said, most people don't get caught anyway. So the risk is effectively zero.
- siglesias 16y agoI'm not sure that these back channels affect market prices significantly. Technically they aren't even part of the free market, legally speaking.
- eru 16y agoI guess the economist's definition of a market is more useful for this analysis than the legal one.