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I can't speak to media piracy, but I previously did work with a large supplier of professional software. This is not stuff people often use for fun, and the sof
by 542458 5y ago
I can't speak to media piracy, but I previously did work with a large supplier of professional software. This is not stuff people often use for fun, and the software had free and easy-to-get student versions available. The software still saw 80+% piracy in many markets according to internal metrics. This is a big part of why companies are so enthusiastic about cloud everything - recurring revenue is nice, but unpirateable recurring revenue is even nicer.
That's not to defend this bill. It sounds like rubbish to me.
- meeriee 5y agoDoes making pirating some software impossible actually increase its sales revenue? I'd wager that most people who pirate software wouldn't want to, are even have the means to pay for the full price of the software.
- jacobolus 5y agoTools like Photoshop, Ableton, ArcGIS, Maya, AutoCAD, or Matlab rely on widespread piracy to remain the industry standard (also cheaper student versions and university site licenses, but those aren’t enough by themselves), and make up the lost income by soaking professional users from established firms. If large numbers of people can’t affordably access these, they will adopt some alternative cheaper tool and ultimately bleed users, understanding, and activity away.