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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey  But, you also have to ask, where perhaps did that extra money come from to buy those games? You may want the music more, but if you don't have to spend any money on it, then that money flows down the priority list to those things that are harder to rip off. So, as always, when people stop playing by the rules of capitalism, it becomes impossible to assign values. You can't tell if they like games more, or just that they can now buy more games because they never had to make the decision whether to buy a game or buy some music. |
I don't agree. Everyone sitting in front of a flat screen playing halo and every house wife with a Wii Fit fell in love with those gaming systems because they got the Kings of Leon cd for free?
This thread kind of bothers me for a couple reasons. 1) The anti-piracy-ers are more monday morning quarterbacking than anything else and then claiming intellect. If someone came into my room day after day beating the anti-piracy drum I would seriously ask them to turn in their keys. Too emotional to change and innovate is right! I wouldn't want to work with or give my money to anyone who couldn't recognize the paradigm shift and choose to work with an optimistic, evolving vision for the future instead only being able to offer the grand idea of just saying "stop those people!".
Those links that are "supporting" the 50% loss are from CNN and a Princeton blog that doesn't even protect the copyrights of the authors posting and I'm pretty sure that CNN has been known for telling me some pretty silly s*.
The last paradigm shift was the one that got more than just the chosen few and Rick James into their own studios. There are people here entering the new paradigm shift, the one shifting towards ethics, with the archaic "good old strong-arm-of-the-law solutions". If you embrace this with ethics and respect for listener, you just might be able to pry more than $9.99 out of their wallets.
There are innovative solutions out there somewhere and not too far away. The more you cry and complain that there isn't a new business model the more it's better for everyone else out there with the brave eye to find one. There
are people with the ability to fund a good progressive cause if you look towards community building, embrace the situation we are ALL in and provide instead of protect.