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While I think it's likely that many file-sharers are in the "try-before-you-buy" camp, I also expect this is mostly just a correlation. I spend more than most o
by jmilloy 15y ago
While I think it's likely that many file-sharers are in the "try-before-you-buy" camp, I also expect this is mostly just a correlation. I spend more than most of my friends on media, and I also download/share more for free than most of them. If I couldn't download (or stream... thanks spotify!), I would certainly spend more, rather than less.
- wccrawford 15y agoI would spend more as well... In the short term. But I know from experience that I would eventually become jaded and purchase a lot less. Story time - Back in college, there was a song on the radio that I really liked. I listened to it so much that I bought the CD. When the CD finally arrived (via mail) I listen to it. Every song on the CD was crap. Even the one I loved so much on the radio! Yes, there was apparently a radio version that was different from the CD version. After being burned like that, I didn't buy CDs for a long, long time. It wasn't even the first... It was just so unfair that I decided I'd rather not take the chance any more. Ever again. Movies, games, books... They've all done this to me in some form. I would have just given up and quit buying.