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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon
i think the "consumer" is losing the privilege of "determining price" in the digital realm. all paying customers are not honest customers. a customer who is lost because of a higher price, when the reason behind that higher price is all around them, is (imo) one who was probably gonna steal anyway.
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Really it cost 99 cents to distribute a 25 year old song digitally? To assume that customers that download illegally are people that would have done it anyways is a suicidal way to think business wise.
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dont wanna raise the price point? fine. then you should be doing everything in your power to protect it. either way, i'd risk losing customers in an attempt to stop hemorrhaging money.
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You're hemorrhaging money anyways if you try to do what the music and movie industry tries to do. How's that working out for them?
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we scream bloody murder whenever microsoft, apple, adobe, or any other company makes us jump through all kinds of security and verification hoops to make sure we're not stealing their shit. but they do it because they know if they make it easy for us to steal it, we will. they don't make PSA's begging us not to (well, maybe they do but they do it in CONJUNCTION with the hoops & price increases  )
I'm well aware that they don't give a shit. my question is: why are we pandering to them?
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You know keeping thinking in old ways and thinking content has the same value it always has and you'll be on food stamps and welfare in no time.
Yes 15 years ago you could sell a 2 hour porn video in a porno shop for $25. You can't today. The value of that content is worth MUCH less than it was in the past. Now you can accept that and make the proper adjustments or you can keeping trying to get $25 for something people don't even think is worth $5 all the way to the poor house.