Canadian Study: Piracy Created by Greedy Capitalists
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In your FMA example in particular, I bought the entire show for just 40$. 20$ for each half. They've stopped manufacture of those old part 1-8 box sets and are now just selling what remains.believer258 said:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=PCXE-50051 this is just about what it cost them for one disc. This price is only 5-10$ less for them. Here's what we pay http://store.bandai-ent.com/product_p/669198200359.htm see the difference?
Freeware is given away with the consent. When a game is pirated for free, then a person gets someone's intellectual property without their consent. It's wrong for the same reason plagiarism's wrong.HG131 said:
If I make something, and it's desirable, and I put hard work into it, then I have the right to do with what I want, right? Is it so wrong that I demand monetary compensation for hard work that I've done, especially in this harsh Capitalist climate?
That may be a bit too severe of a statement. I'm thinking more along the lines of "People are not entitled to entertainment they cannot afford."zehydra said:
Yes, it's a shame and an annoyance that imported media in developing nations have such staggering prices, but does this automatically give the citizens of these countries the right to acquire these forms of entertainment, free of charge? Should they have the ability to take what we have to otherwise pay for, simply out of principle?
Exchanging our opinions is all nice and fun. But the real deal here is that the software companies are acting out on these facts. I live in an emerging south american economy, and AAA titles are really hard to come by at stores. We only get the really popular ones, and mostly for consoles. If it wasn't for digital distribution I just couldn't get the PC games I want. And I fear digital distribution, but have no choice, other than piracy.
Of brotherhood I mean
Entertainment is not a required need for survival, but it is required for comfortable living. If you can provide people with a comfortable and productive life, they will live happily. The overall point though is that to say, "People do NOT deserve entertainment they cannot afford." is a very closed outlook to not just the topic, but to also many outlooks in life when they'll appear. I agree that there's monetary value that needs to be offset, and yes, some forms of entertainment are impossible to experience without the money to fund them. (Good luck on getting a lapdance with pennies) but the form, packaging, and ability to receive entertainment in the form of TV shows, Viddja games should not be restricted to the rich only. Valve shows us that even their games can go to low prices, where anyone can pick them up and get to enjoy it at a proper set-point.zehydra said:
lol all aboard the asswagon!HG131 said:
Well then, fair enough. All we have to do then is create a system where people are only allowed to sell anything up to a certain price, depending on who can afford it.
The result of course, would be that "free" would be the maximum allowable price, because there are those who cannot afford anything at all.
The poor pirate because they are poor. It's one thing to go after affluent first world people who can afford late model PCs and current generation consoles, and thus the games that go with them, but this? Do companies really imagine that vast profits lurk amongst the slums of Rio and Johannesburg?
This isn't going to change until the people there have the wealth to dream of creating media for themselves, and thus having something to defend. This took a long time in to happen in the West and it'll take a while in the third world, too.
This isn't going to change until the people there have the wealth to dream of creating media for themselves, and thus having something to defend. This took a long time in to happen in the West and it'll take a while in the third world, too.