Originally Posted by slapass

And multiply that by every third world country. If they sold the software for 10 cents on the dollar most of these companies would triple sales. The first world is subsidizing all of these places with music, movies and software.

This is what no one seems to grasp, we are paying the cost for this. "oh but Hollywood etc makes so much money." And they are turning out crap as no one can make a dime on a movie that doesn't go global right away. So we get to watch another Spiderman or buy Windows 7.