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 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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Re: Anyone ever heard of Poor Talent and Overhype and OverPriced quote:
Sharing as a try before you buy mechanism is fine. Sharing to avoid paying the cost of the album, single, or download is not. A majority of people sharing, over 70% of them in a recent survey, do it to save money.
Exactly. Try it. Decide it sucks. Don't buy it.
This is exactly the model I use for software (not just games, apps too) and anime, and indirectly, music. Anime music videos are infringing too, but I would never have bought a Nightwish CD if it weren't for a couple AMVs featuring their music. I never would've bought Need for Speed Most Wanted if I hadn't pirated it first (heck later I even bought a wheel for it).
Unfortunately, the vast majority of stuff that I try in such a manner, sucks. Pacific Storm could've been such a great game, but had several fatal flaws. Far Cry, whose demo was great, turned out to suck in the full game (I loved the parts where you actually fight human enemies. The mutants totally killed it for me. Make a Far Cry with no mutants, and I'd buy it). Sure glad I didn't waste my money on it.
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1 edit | said by sivran: quote:
Sharing as a try before you buy mechanism is fine. Sharing to avoid paying the cost of the album, single, or download is not. A majority of people sharing, over 70% of them in a recent survey, do it to save money.
Exactly. Try it. Decide it sucks. Don't buy it. This is exactly the model I use for software (not just games, apps too) and anime, and indirectly, music. Anime music videos are infringing too, but I would never have bought a Nightwish CD if it weren't for a couple AMVs featuring their music. I never would've bought Need for Speed Most Wanted if I hadn't pirated it first (heck later I even bought a wheel for it). Unfortunately, the vast majority of stuff that I try in such a manner, sucks. Pacific Storm could've been such a great game, but had several fatal flaws. Far Cry, whose demo was great, turned out to suck in the full game (I loved the parts where you actually fight human enemies. The mutants totally killed it for me. Make a Far Cry with no mutants, and I'd buy it). Sure glad I didn't waste my money on it. I am all for that model.
However, not everyone follows that rule.
I know of a local design business that has warezed versions of Photoshop CS3 on 8 workstations. Why? Its cheaper to do that than buy the product. Even though the product makes tens of thousands for them in the course of a year.
Then you have people who download countless movies, watch them, burn copies of them for their viewing pleasure later, and share them with others. How many times do you have to use a product before it becomes a "lost sale"? 2? 3? How about a media center full of dvd quality movies that have been illegally downloaded and are all watched multiple times?
Shareware has been a concept out there for a long time so it is nothing new. The problem comes up when consumers feel they have the right to download and use what they want without paying for it. Especially if they use the product on a daily basis.
The difference is, you paid for your material you found to be interesting. I know a lot of cheapskates who don't pay for anything they download illegally. Whats worse is that they keep hundreds of gigs of this stuff. | |
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| The guys in that shop are the ones that are really costing people (in this case, Adobe) money though. Not Joe Torrent Trader, who may or may not, but most likely not, buy what he downloads.
The line between those design shop guys and Joe is a very black, very broad one. I've no problem with software houses going after people using unlicensed software for their business.
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