my (unwanted, maybe,
) half cent of personal opinion about "piracy" .....
"piracy" is a sooo "comfortable" and useful word, for media and majors, that lately i see it used everywhere ..... you sell copies of an original ? -> you're a pirate (uhm, ok, maybe right) ..... you share something through P2P ? -> you're a pirate (really ?) ..... you download something copyrighted for free ? -> you're a pirate (OMG) ..... you even THINK to do it ? -> basically, you're a pirate (ah, well .....
) .....
anyway, as far as i know, all that damage for majors and industries, is "just a little bit"
exagerated, maybe just for private interests ..... maybe ? .....
a major can have a damage of 2 us$ or so, for a download of an album, or a game ...... ok, multiply it for all the downloads, and you have a good cypher ..... but need to think also some little ininfluent things, imho ..... like, as example, how much peoples that download a game or a video or music album, really want to buy it if there was not the possibility to download for free ? ..... 2% ? ..... 3% ..... don't think much more
as example, i download a lot (i'm basically a file collector) ..... lots of the things that i download, are NOT in the market of my region, so, also if i want to buy them, i cannot do it ..... other than this, i usually NEVER buy a thing like an album of music, if i canot hear it before, and decide if i like it ..... AFTER i've downoaded it, if i like it, usually i buy an original, otherwise not ..... for the video is almost the same, lots of trailers promise you so much good contents, that after the vision reveals so bad quality in story, plot and realizations ..... in my life, i seen don't-know-what number of video, and AFTER, i buyed 17 of them, cause i really like them ..... if i had buyed all the rest,
THAT was a real piracy AGAINST ME, making me pay for crap products (LOL)
and for the pc games (i hate consoles), basically is the same ..... lots of titles promise so much and give so few, that i always download them ..... and only AFTER, if a game really worth it, make anonymous donation to the authors (yes, directly ..... no reason for let distributors and majors earn unmerited money
)
but, apart all this, have you never considered that the main cause of the "piracy", are the majors themselves ? ..... and, ofcourse, riaa, mpaa, and all the other criminal associations like them, all over the world
is easy to think (so they never do it
), that if they don't grow the price of the albums, videos, games and pc programs of 1000% of the real value, just for make more money, who lost time and efforts downloading them ? ..... the industrial production of a musical cd, as example, cost the equivalent of 0,11 us$ (at least here), and i mean ALL included (disk, print, booklet, shell, cello wrap, til the finished ready-to-sell product) ..... the author get, indicatively, 3 to 5 us$ equivalents for each sold copy ..... and in the shop, after taxes and "distribution", you pay
30 us$ each one ! ..... so, who is the main guilty, if "piracy" exists ? ..... the building industry ? ..... the authors ? ..... or, maybe, majors and taxes ? .....
and for videos, games and pc programs, is the same ..... as example, micro$oft
sell, to a certain country gov (and still gain from this price, otherwise they don't sell), the bundle "windows xp + office" at 36 $ .....
36 $ !!! ..... and here we pay windows xp
180$ and office
300$ ..... then they cry that 90% of the os are pirated ..... so, who is the guilty if 90% of the privates just download them instead buy ? ..... who the hell lose time downloading and cracking, if they can have an original for 36$, instead have to pay 480 ?
all this is just a personal opinion, ofcourse ..... but, say me honestly, is really so wrong ?