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CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on July 09, 2011, 01:13:00 am --- I cant say that Im an innocent angel.  But, I dont brag at what negative things Ive done.  I certainly wouldnt call non-pirates Sheep.

 In fact, Id be more inclined to call you a Sheep, because you clearly lack intelligence.

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* CheffoJeffo notices that Xiaou, Mal and he all agree and runs outside to watch for the four horsemen.

Gatt:


--- Quote from: Vigo on July 08, 2011, 01:54:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: thefearsomefearful on July 08, 2011, 01:41:27 pm ---So far the excuses for theft seem to be, "some things are overpriced," "some movies are dumb," "crime happens, so we are collectively unable to think for ourselves," and "hey, I am doing them a favor by pirating! It is publicity!" This thread is making my day! :applaud:

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Not at all. The point is that this is the future and the is no turning back. You cannot stop piracy. It will continue. The goal is to find those pirates who would have purchased the product if piracy was not a easier method, and offer them a reason to buy instead.

There are two types of pirates though. The first type would not pay for the product no matter what. Don't even consider them as revenue lost because there is nothing in the world that would convince them to make the purchase. If they couldn't get it for free, they wouldn't even touch it to begin with.

The second type is people who pirate because it is just easier and more beneficial to them to pirate rather than purchase. Those are the pirates that would be willing to purchase the product if there was incentive to do so. It is tough for content creators right now, because publishers and developers are often tied to business methods that offer no incentive for these people to make the purchase. People who have a reason to buy, will gladly do so. Rather than trying to get these people to buy, the publishers want to sue the pants off of these people, alienating potential fans and destroying the creators reputation in the process.

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Actually,  they can stop it,  and they will in the not too distant future.

Piracy is wholely dependent on P2P to reach the scale it's at.  The bendwidth costs to do the same thing without P2P would be exorborant at the scale we're talking about.  P2P has a definitive traffic pattern,  normal internet use doesn't load both Upload and Download pipes in parallel for extended periods,  not at the scale P2P does.  It either uses one or the other,  or uses both but at a smaller scale where the upload/downloads are comparable in size (For video conferencing and gaming).  All they have to do is watch for the distinctive pattern.  Sure,  you could scale back your speeds,  but the same end result is achieved,  now it's so slow as to be unusable.

As to the second type of people you talk about,  the product is the incentive.  They wouldn't be pirating it if they didn't want it.  If they couldn't pirate it,  they wouldn't need a "Prize" to buy it,  they'd still buy it,  just like they did for the millenia prior to P2P.  The whole "It's the (System, quality, price, etc) that makes it not worth buying!" thing is a self-justification for participating in an activity they know is wrong.

Xiaou2:

Xiaou2 believes the Hell will FREEZE over when Cheffo stops inserting useless personal attacking commentary... rather than posting Arcade related, non-personal things.


Ginsu Victim:


--- Quote from: fallacy on July 08, 2011, 01:38:16 pm ---To me it is hard to make an argument that copying is stealing? If I did not copy it then who is to say I would spend the money to get it in the first place? At least if it was something that I like I could spread it through word of mouth and someone else might pay for it.

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AHEM....


--- Quote from: fallacy on July 08, 2011, 12:28:48 pm ---My family has been getting into UFC fights lately. They were paying that $55 to watch the paper view live every month. I was like just give me one day after the fight and I will have the HD version downloaded and playing on my 60” TV. They were like “you can do that?”

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Hoopz:


--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on July 09, 2011, 05:48:26 pm ---Xiaou2 believes the Hell will FREEZE over when Cheffo stops inserting useless personal attacking commentary... rather than posting Arcade related, non-personal things.


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Take it easy Francis.

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