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Originally Posted by raymor
Intuitively, it seems like lower prices might reduce theft. Fortunately we don't have to rely on what seems like a reasonable guess because we have actual facts that answer that question.
Music is ONE DOLLAR and still it's stolen more often than anything else. That, to me, pretty much answers the pricing question. What really happens is that even a price of one measily dollar doesn't reduce theft, so that guess was wrong, even though it seemed like a reasonable guess.
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deduct all the people who come from countries with a piracy tax that pays the artists
deduct all the people who are simply getting back content they already bought
and the percentage is really tiny
the piracy tax model is really great because the tax only has to pay the artist the 5-10% of the sale price to fully compensate them.