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Originally Posted by Three.Thousand
first of all, that is not true. quite the opposite.
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It's not entirely true, but it's true to a significant extent. And far from being the opposite, it's a well established fact that people who experience, for example, music via piracy may go on to buy that music or other music from the same people, which they would not have done if they had not heard them via piracy first. Or they may watch a pirated movie, and enjoy it enough to then pay to see it in the cinema. It's exactly the same principle behind free samples.
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do u think, if piracy went away tomorrow, that the current generation born and raised on free porn suddenly go "back" to jacking off to lingerie mags etc like back in the day? dads playboy stash.... no, they would go mental and pay whatever it took to get their fix.
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You may as well say if crime went away tomorrow every person would be a law abiding citizen.
The only way piracy would go away is if people didn't want to pirate any more. Self evidently if people don't pirate, it means they're be happy to buy the product. Piracy won't go away tomorrow, just as it exists today, precisely
because it's a symptom of not wanting to buy.
Theft is a cost of doing business. Always has been and always will be.