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I disagree. If they are smart and a good developers they could earn €100K in a normal job (10yrs experience lets say). Is 2-3x increase in salary worth the ris
by immad 18y ago
I disagree. If they are smart and a good developers they could earn €100K in a normal job (10yrs experience lets say).
Is 2-3x increase in salary worth the risk of possible jail time? Also instead they could do other entrepreneurial things and get much higher upside profits.
In general it just seems that if you are going to do gray/black things at least have massively super-normal profits. But maybe they are just doing it out of principle.
- vaksel 18y agoYou don't need to be smart and good to start a torrent site. There are thousands of them online at this point. The 2-3x salary increase is also faulty. A salary is pretty much capped to a tiny raise...year in, year out. Businesses on the other hand grow more or less exponentially. So yeah, 2-3x salary may not be worth it, but you need to take the long term view, a few years from now that # will be 5-6x salary...more or less guaranteed without major effort. Also, I don't really buy the going to jail argument, these guys aren't in the USA, so they are a lot more protected from RIAA etc. And worst case scenario, they'll have to shut down the site and pay a small fine. And the most extreme scenario where they go to jail...its not like they'll end up with the general population, they'll go to some white collar prison instead.
- gacek 18y agoWhen RIAA 'thinks' that people outside US fall under US laws - thats ignorance. But when people think that those outside US do not have copyright laws - well, thats kind of ignorance too. You're only guessing the 'worst' or 'extreme' scenarios. And as for 'white collar prisons' - just google the stanford experiment.
- sown 18y agoAre you serious?! I could be making that much money by now?!?!
- DenisM 18y agoYes, $120k/year is a reasonable sum for a 10 year senior developer, and not just in the Silicon Valley. Check out http://www.glassdoor.com/ http://www.glassdoor.com/ for overview of how much money people make in different companies and locations. It depends on what you do, of course - designing web sites for hire probably does not pay very well. Enterprise software OTOH pays very well. Bottom line is that your time is very valuable, but you need to find a place where it can be put to productive use.
- sown 18y agoAh. Originally the op said 200,000 euroes
- mannicken 18y agoBut what is productive use?
- mannicken 18y agoBut what is productive use?
- DenisM 18y agohttp://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/12/how-to-make-lots-of-money-during-a-recession/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/12/how-to-make-lots-of... Disregard the title, read the content and make sure you understand what it means "to create and deliver value". Then you will undestand how to spend your time productively.