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Well, its all based on the idea that people who "illegally" download would have bought the item otherwise. Really not true. Mostly the reason is either convenie
by alan_cx 15y ago
Well, its all based on the idea that people who "illegally" download would have bought the item otherwise. Really not true. Mostly the reason is either convenience or lack of cash to buy in the first place.
I think of all the CD's I bought in the past which turned out to be garbage apart from the two singles released which are the reason for buying the CD. I think of all the DVD's I bought that I watched once. Now I don't have to waste my money. I can down load for free and buy a decent packaged copy if I deem it worthy of my money.
Thing is, I've been stitched up for years by these gits with terrible product, and I was getting back my wasted money. Now I purchase wisely because I can try it out first. I only buy what I personally feel is good product. I delete the garbage.
I suppose the media companies will require lots of their customers to be sued and jailed before any one in politics stands up to them and says, " no, you are wrong. You sales are down because your product is mostly rubbish, and sold in an inconvenient way. People are valuing your product as zero. Where they don't, they buy. "
What the media companies are concerned about is that they are losing the ability to con us with rubbish. What I think is good, is that the sales they now do have are probably better quality sales, and the people who did buy are happier with what they bought.
Said it before, but all that is happening here is that governments are for some reason trying to prop up failing business models. I dont understand why. If it were that the pace of technology threatened a clockwork clock company, then that company would be expected to either move on or go out of business. Some how, no so with the media companies. I assume that its to do with money, political funding and the usual democratic corruption.
Pah, could be wrong, but that's my current thinking.
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- J3L2404 15y ago>People are valuing your product as zero. Where they don't, they buy. No. The popular content is downloaded more. You can jump thru hoops and do backflips but the fact is people don't want to pay. Period. Everything else is justification.
- zanny 15y agoOf course they don't want to buy, they recognize the cost of reproduction is zero. It is hard fact that once someone sets all the trillions of bits in a movie, game, operating system, or anything else we do, just ONCE, you can clone it for nothing as many times as you want. Until we get off the distribution per unit model of retail we will have this war against consumers.
- J3L2404 15y ago>they recognize the cost of reproduction is zero. That is being very generous to the pimply-faced downloaders. I am quite sure the costs upfront or otherwise have no bearing.
- J3L2404 15y agoSorry to anyone offended by pimply, but this idea that anything copyable deserves no copyright is childish. Exceedingly so on a site about software.
- barrkel 15y agoCopyright is a red herring. What we want is to encourage creation of valuable information products and services. Historically, copyright was one way of doing that, because copying information directly was difficult and required apparatus and physical tokens that could be policed relatively easily. When copying becomes as simple and trivial as breathing, policing the act of copying becomes intrusive and laborious. So different mechanisms of encouraging content creation need to be found; the fight we should be fighting has little to do with preserving copyright in its historical form.
- J3L2404 15y agoWhether you like or not copyright law still exists. It has been dismissed on message boards but has not been repealed. When there is a viable mechanism of content creation it will gradually take over, just like every industry. You can't tell people to give up their horse and buggy if the cars aren't ready yet.
- guard-of-terra 15y ago"I think of all the CD's I bought in the past which turned out to be garbage apart from the two singles released which are the reason for buying the CD." I always wonder why do people buy that stuff. I mean, you can figure out whether a band or artist is serious at what they do. It's your duty as a music fan. So it is you who buys the suboptimal product, it is you who sponsors one trick ponies and rip offs, who gives them competitive advantage against the deep, real musicians.