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I also can't help thinking that piracy helps the incumbent by protecting the market at the bottom end. I'm pretty sure low cost or open source alternatives to,
by benohear 16y ago
I also can't help thinking that piracy helps the incumbent by protecting the market at the bottom end. I'm pretty sure low cost or open source alternatives to, say, Photoshop would have a lot more traction if the option to pirate it wasn't there.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoYup. If I couldn't pirate Photoshop, I'd be pretty handy with GIMP by now.
- khafra 16y agoCounterpoint: Cory Doctorow points out that the newcomer's enemy is not piracy, it's obscurity. If you have an awesome piece of intellectual property that nobody knows about, people copying and downloading can put it on the map.