@deusx said:
Depends on what kinds of treasures I'm stealing if you know what I mean... That's only for games though. I pirate EVERYTHING else. Movies because they are too expensive and I watch too many of them and music because fuck the music industry. I buy vinyls from time to time though.
Movies are literally a dollar these days. Just find a redbox duder, jeez. Or rent on iTunes/Amazon. There's really no good excuse for saying that kind of thing. You're not going to watch it more than once anyway, and if you do you should be willing to pay for it.
And if you hate the music industry, why are you listening to what it produces? Artists deserve yo money dawg. The idea that your personal vendetta against the industry is worth them getting EVEN LESS money is fucking stupid. "I hate that they don't pay the people enough, so instead I'll make it so they don't pay them at all." Brilliant.
That's why piracy is dumb. Because nothing is really that expensive and because people gotta get them bills somehow. Nothing wrong with paying for shit.
Ugh... What's wrong here is that you assume I'm american. First, redbox/iTunes/Amazon... I only have access to one of those services due to banks having bad policies with international transactions. So yeah... no. Also, I earn very little money compared to what most americans earn on a minimum wage and ordering through the internet is a huge waste of money for me since shipping costs are huge. I go to the theater to go see the movies I'm interested in, the ones I'm not, I pirate. Deal with it.
I hate the music industry, I don't hate music. That's it. I make music, I give it for free. Artists deserve my money, so I give it to them buying vinyls from time to time. It's still a huge expense but I still do it gladly. You think artists earn money on record sales? Give me a break. Most bands now a days give their albums for free because shows and merchandise (shirts/vinyls/collectors editions) are what gives them real money. I go to shows whenever I can and support the bands that deserve it in a way that actually helps THEM.
"Nothing is really expensive" - yeah, a lot of things are and I'm a curator of what things I experience. The things that really appeal to me, I spend money. Ones that don't, I won't. Piracy exists and people should understand that because piracy is not a problem because people are evil, piracy is a problem of bad services and the lack of quality products. It's ten times easier for someone to go to piratebay and download a shitty movie with one click than going to netflix and spending time on dumb menus.
In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate’s service is more valuable. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customers use or by creating uncertainty.
Our goal is to create greater service value than pirates, and this has been successful enough for us that piracy is basically a non-issue for our company. For example, prior to entering the Russian market, we were told that Russia was a waste of time because everyone would pirate our products. Russia is now about to become our largest market in Europe. - Gabe Newell
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