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Gabe Newell put it best, two years ago [1]: In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem a
by quanticle 13y ago
Gabe Newell put it best, two years ago [1]:
In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
Those two sentences should be tattooed on every music, film, and publishing executive's forehead. As every convenient online service (iTunes, Netflix, Steam, Kindle) has demonstrated, people will legally purchase content, so long as the option of legal purchase is easier and more convenient than piracy.
[1] http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/story_type/site_trail_story/interview-gabe-newell/ http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/story_type/site_trail_story/intervi...
- Sniperfish 13y agoEven Netflix, Kindle, iTunes have significant accessibility issues - as a Canadian I find US friends online have access to a much greater library than the Canadian equivalent. I can only assume this is license related (as opposed to concerns around the incremental cost of distribution of online streams!). A good example actually comes from BBC - QI (Quite Interesting) uses some media whose licensing/copywrite is prohibitively expensive in the US relative to UK that the program cannot be broadcast by BBC America / BBC Canada.