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Stealing something deprives the owner of 100% of its value or potential earnings. Pirating something does not deprive the owner of 100% of its value or potenti
by Tycho 15y ago
Stealing something deprives the owner of 100% of its value or potential earnings.
Pirating something does not deprive the owner of 100% of its value or potential earnings. Nor is it 0%. It's obviously somewhere in between, on an aggregate level. Like between 30% and 70%.
(you;ve also got to analyse it from the perspective that pirates will download anything and everything, without even watching it. But on aggregate it probably means where they would have spent £30 a month on the industry, now they spend £0).
"Film / Music people may get slightly more money from certain people but the majority of this money would come at the expensive of other things."
Uh... that's a terrible argument. We're not talking about balancing the budget of the different departments within the same company or something, we're talking about the violation of peoples rights. Just because teens spend all their money on games, rather than music, now, doesn't not make it right.
- JoshTriplett 15y ago> Pirating something does not deprive the owner of 100% of its value or potential earnings. Nor is it 0%. It's obviously somewhere in between, on an aggregate level. Like between 30% and 70%. "potential earnings" does not mean "value". You have no fundamental right to get paid; you need to convince people to pay you. If you don't like it, don't provide your work in the first place. Copyright deprives people of a non-zero percentage of the value of a work in the public domain; you claim people don't have the right to that value in the first place. My ability to resell a used lamp deprives the lamp maker of the value they'd get by selling a new one; they still have no right to prevent me from doing so.
- Tycho 15y agoWhatever. The point is that while content producers would not sell 100% of the stuff that gets pirated, nor would they have sold 0%.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoYou seem to have entirely ignored my point and just repeated yours. Your claim probably holds true, and I didn't dispute it, but that doesn't make it relevant.
- Tycho 15y agoIf you weren't disputing it, why did you respond? I was replying to someone else entirely, specifically the point that pirated copies made doesn't equate to number of copies that hypothetically would have been bought instead.