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robbie. stealing is a part of business conflict & evolution. you are correct in that taking someones hard work & giving it away devalues it. There are allegedly laws in place to protect copyright, but obviously they are ineffective & only useful to the wealthy, & even then its questionable what return on the legal expense is.
some very successful people invented nothing, stole someone elses ideas & made bank. Bill gates is the king of all thieves, he never invented anything, not windows, not the browser, nothing. google is the biggest thief on the web. They didnt invent search, they just did it best & now they are the biggest helper of the piracy business. They fight against congressional efforts to curb piracy, like SOPA.
you know tech very well. piracy is a fact of computer technology, because anything digital can be copied & widely distributed for free. lately i been watching as adobe & microsoft are now selling their retail software on a subscription basis, because their software is easily copied & given away. If these giant billion dollar companies cant stop piracy, then you have to stop fighting & accept the realities of the techology. You are recognizing change by bringing greater interactivity to your customers.
i would prefer a piracy free world but i see it is not gonna happen. People have to look at the market & decide how best to monetize it based on the reality of today.
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