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I "pirated" when I was a stupid kid with too much time on my hands and not enough respect for other people's. Back then I downloaded a lot of stuff that I never
by PedroCandeias 16y ago
I "pirated" when I was a stupid kid with too much time on my hands and not enough respect for other people's. Back then I downloaded a lot of stuff that I never got around to playing / reading / watching. It was free, it was there, so I just took it. I guess it was just the hunter-gatherer instincts taking over my immature mind.
These days I'm way more discerning. I'm engaged in many rewarding activities, from my day job to my startup, from my social to my romantic life. So I tend to consume less digital entertainment.But what I do consume, I pay for.
That way I'm supporting the authors and encouraging them to keep up their good work, so that in the future I may benefit from more quality entertainment. Prices are usually very reasonable anyway.
- dmitri1981 16y ago> Back then I downloaded a lot of stuff that I never got around to playing / reading / watching. One could argue that piracy in the above instance causes no economic loss to the producer. If you had to pay for it, you would not have purchased it anyway, therefore the producer is in the same situation in either case. At the same time companies can hugely benefit from this kind of piracy. In the case of Microsoft, pirated versions of Windows allow them to maintain their dominant position in the market. If the Windows was really piracy proof then the people who could not afford to pay $100(ish) for it would probably switch to an alternative like Linux. That in turn would weaken MS's position since a strong userbase of an alternative OS would develop thus undermining their 'platform' strategy.