| people driven to piracy I didn't see anyone touch on this topic so I figured I'd put in my 2 cents. I know I am just 1 of millions of people who, in the age of living paycheck to paycheck, got sick and tired of spending $17 on a CD from my favorite artist, or even a new artist I wanted to try, just to find out it was crap. Any other product in this world, if it's crap, you can take it back for a refund or exchange, but once you open that CD, that's it. So like many others I began to download music on my own. When I found the music to my liking, I bought the album, and knew when I bought it I was getting something I liked (though $17 is still a dumb price to pay for a CD) Instead of the record companies understanding what was going on, and fixing it (getting better artists or writing better songs for them) they just started to churn out more crap at higher prices and flood the market with sub-par material. And they wondered why CD sales went down.
Hollywood has taken the same route, making tons of crappy movies and releasing them to the masses. I soon learned to do the same with them, and DL movies I wish to view before going to buy them. This way my money is best spent for me, and in all honesty, it means that only the studios/artists i wish to support get their money, and all the crap places don't steal my hard earned cash.
Piracy wouldn't be such a problem if companies didn't make their prices so outrageous. No, you can never stop it fully, but you can lessen it's effects greatly with good business practices. |
