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Yes, sure, but it’s hard to imagine that they’ll suddenly turn into willing buyers when they can’t pirate.
by alex_suzuki 3y ago
Yes, sure, but it’s hard to imagine that they’ll suddenly turn into willing buyers when they can’t pirate.
- allan_s 3y agoTo play the devil's advocate: On the other one can argue that people pirating does not improve their economics either so why risk it ?
- alex_suzuki 3y agoDon‘t they say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery? :-) I get your point – I just feel like there’s not a lot of potential economic improvement to be had here, but apparently there is.
- littlestymaar 3y agoExcept it could, actually: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308905 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308905 But it's not as if corporations acted rationally anyway, they are led by humans and as such they are mostly driven by emotions.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoFrom my experience, a lot people actually do. And in case of game consoles, that also means they have to buy the hardware even if they only want to play one game. This is very significant potential income for Nintendo. All my friends that are into games have a PS4/5 just to play exclusives, even if they play games on PC 99% of the time. And non-trivial number of them play XB3 in emulators so they don't need to buy a Switch just for that. If there is no emulators, they probably would.
- lrvick 3y agoAs if taking down a couple of the thousands of copies of an FOSS repo will slow anyone down. All Nintendo did is make it easier for people on the fence to decide if they want to financially support them or pirate.