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It's very simple: for bigger company piracy is more like a form of advertising, but for a small one it can actually hurt and kill the small guys.
by ii 18y ago
It's very simple: for bigger company piracy is more like a form of advertising, but for a small one it can actually hurt and kill the small guys.
- khafra 18y agoCory Doctorow is one of the most copyright reform-advocacy-minded people around, and he makes the opposite claim: [paraphrased] "the problem for independent artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity." If A is the set of people that've heard of your product sans piracy, and B is the people that've heard of it after piracy, then the gap between B' that pirates and B had better be smaller than the gap between A and B. That's likelier for a tiny producer than a huge one.
- ii 18y agoI don't care, I make the claim I make: Big guys have free advertising from piracy, small guys are hurt from the same thing. Edit: I guess we mis-understand each other -- I didn't mean VERY small guys, who may suffer from obscurity.