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Plus: piracy will always be more convenient, because even with everything else being exactly the same, you have the paying step at the end in commercial site, w
by batista 14y ago
Plus: piracy will always be more convenient, because even with everything else being exactly the same, you have the paying step at the end in commercial site, whereas you just download away on the piracy site.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoIt is not true, Apple proved otherwise.
- batista 14y agoApple proved what exactly? That's far from equal. I din't dispute that music purchases can be made EASY. Or that current piracy methods are or can be hard. What I said is --and it's mere logic, it cannot be disproven--, that piracy will always have the option to be ONE STEP EASIER, i.e omit the paying step. People say that you don't have to fight piracy, just make buying easier. And I say that if you don't fight piracy and just let it be, then at best you get, say: a) a piracy service b) a commercial service Since we "don't fight piracy", nothing prevents the piracy service to offer whatever the commercial service does, from streaming to high quality lose-less files, to a great UI, to being totally free and even without ads. But the commercial service must always have the buying step (enter credit card details etc), plus all the legal and logistical necessities.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoThey can offer better service because they a) have incentive to do so (pirates - not really, good enough works for them), and b) they can haz cooperation from the makers of the content.