Imagine you take years perfecting your artistic ability, you sleep in a van to hit the road for gigs, skip meals to afford studio time, put your heart soul into your creation and instead of getting paid 99ยข for it somebody pirates it.
Freaking thank you! Finally, someone gets it. Imagine going to work for months on end, working really hard and then your boss says "sorry, you won't be getting paid"
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Then think about prices. A few time I pirated a game because it was too expensive and then when it was discounted and had a normal price I deleted the pirated copy from my PC only to buy the original. Not to mention scum like The Sims - I was buying all DLCs to The Sims 3 until I realized that it is unfair. The game suddenly becomes 10x more expensive and I'm the one who feels like their money got stolen. It's like you bought a car and noticed that there is no engine, seats, steering wheel, tires and you have to buy them alone with sick prices that are just a bit less expensive than the "whole" car.
@thegrumpus
The problem with that scenario is that it assumes that anyone who pirates something would have bought that thing if they couldn't pirate it.
Also concerts are where the money is at.
Also lots of artists have no problem with their work being pirated.
Also I don't give a shit about people who's stuff gets pirated when they decided to work in an industry rampant with piracy.
It's illegal almost everywhere but the worst places on earth like North Korea that doesn't recognize internat copyright law.
And yes, I meant immoral. Thanks.
"It's illegal almost everywhere but the worst places on earth like North Korea that doesn't recognize internat copyright law."
Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Canada (sort of), Ukraine...
"And yes, I meant immoral."
I see. In that case, that's subjective.
Piracy of music will continue until the artist makes a fair amount of money. I left the music industry because, as a sound engineer, I was making more in royalty payments than some of the artists I worked with.
What? No it's not. Wearing a pair of shoes make those shoes much less likely to be stolen. Additionally, making a game a console exclusive isn't analogous to going barefoot at all. What are you on about?
Imagine your car get stolen, it's still there in the morning. But worth half as much. And then the original gets stolen, all 3 are worth less.. Keep going and your car is worth nothing.
Now compare good music/movies to a Lamborghini... Would anyone ever buy a Lamborghini at full price it it was going to have no value tomorrow. No, so no the world is stuck with 1995 Toyota corolla.
The problem with that scenario is that it assumes that anyone who pirates something would have bought that thing if they couldn't pirate it.
Also concerts are where the money is at.
Also lots of artists have no problem with their work being pirated.
Also I don't give a shit about people who's stuff gets pirated when they decided to work in an industry rampant with piracy.
That depends on where you live.
"and amoral"
Are you sure you don't mean immoral?
And yes, I meant immoral. Thanks.
Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Canada (sort of), Ukraine...
"And yes, I meant immoral."
I see. In that case, that's subjective.
Now compare good music/movies to a Lamborghini... Would anyone ever buy a Lamborghini at full price it it was going to have no value tomorrow. No, so no the world is stuck with 1995 Toyota corolla.