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Well if you love music or movies, you can easily avoid PAYING for their products.
by eekfuh 16y ago
Well if you love music or movies, you can easily avoid PAYING for their products.
- redthrowaway 16y agoEven if you don't support piracy, you can easily avoid paying Sony by just buying used.
- patrickyeon 16y agoBuying used doesn't support anybody else involved in the production. If you're worried about the ethics of piracy, I do not understand how buying used changes things.
- derobert 16y agoThe existence of a resale market likely increases the initial purchases of the item. How? Hypothetically, say the utility you'd get out a specific album is $8. The price is $10, so, naturally you won't buy it. However, you normally tire of music in, say, a year. You realize you can sell it them for $4. So instead you go ahead and buy it ("it really only costs me $6, 'cause I can sell it when I'm done with it").
- patrickyeon 16y agoTrue, but if you want to take that look, buying used doesn't effectively keep your money out of Sony's hands either. You're just laundering it to keep your own conscience clean. Of course, not paying for it at all doesn't help anyone involved.
- redthrowaway 16y agoIf I could cut out labels and buy directly from artists, I would. I imagine we'll see something like that in the future, although the labels would fight against it just as hard as everybody's fighting Netflix.
- GFischer 16y agoYou're not paying Sony directly, but you're still helping them with the network effect (for example, promoting their music/movies, or their gaming platform).
- danieldk 16y agoNot if you want to support the artist. Not every artist offers Flac/H.264 audio/video for purchase on his/her website. The large majority doesn't.