Thread: What is "piracy" and is it ever justified
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2010-03-05 , 04:52
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Originally Posted by azorni View Post
You just don't get it, do you ?


When you created something, indeed you paid with your efforts, reflexion or time passed improving your artistic skills.
OK

But once you've finished, what you have done can be given and duplicated with no additional cost. Therefore it can not be sold, and what you paid can not be turned into price, from a commercial and monetary point of view.
For starters, unless you somehow find the way to magically create matter from the void, then there is a cost, there is always a cost. The cost of the storage involved in the media, the cost of distributing it (even if it is electronically), etc There is always a cost, even if it is too small to notice at first glance.

Then, and here it is the part that is hard for you to understand (that, or either you are rationalizing theft... which wouldn't surprise me either, people rarely admit they are doing something wrong, even while committing the most heinous crimes ever), there is a cost directly related to the loss of income for the value creator.

It can be said that piracy operates in a void: its the way that people that would never pay for content anyway, gets their content. So there is people that rationalize it thinking there is no problem, because the pirates wouldn't buy it anyway.

However, often people do not buy, not because they are evil, but because what they want it is not priced accordingly.
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