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Old 12-10-2011, 05:18 PM  
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Originally Posted by mynameisjim View Post
I'm not really comparing anything to porn. Porn really is in a boat all by itself as far as piracy and pricing models and the available free streaming options. You can't compare it to music or mainstream movies.

But in the soccer app example I gave above, the publisher did everything the pirates claim they want. Easy download and pricing under $1. Yet it was still pirated at a rate 100X the rate at which it was purchased. Whether or not you want to believe the comments is one thing, but several people who claimed to have pirated the game said it was the publishers fault for not allowing in game purchases by pirated copies, if they did that, the pirates claimed the publisher could make his money back. That is a common argument among those who claim if they simply get the access the want and the right pricing, they will stop pirating. Yet when they get what they ask for, they then find another excuse to continue pirating.

I think its just a generation of people who have lost sight of the basic good/services payment concept. They think someone else will pay for their theft, and have pretty much convinced themselves that they're "shifting a paradigm".
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