Razor42 posted at 9:15PM Thu, 28 January 2016 - #4251893

So I believe the lost in revenue because of Piracy is not as great as I am being told by other that sell on that site as well.. like it is in the music industry.

There are many other impacts beyond purely monetary that need to be considered.

I was reading on a somewhat dodgy site, people who believe piracy is a freedom of information activity. Seeing themselves as community based free thinkers and digital revolutionaries. On this thread they had taken to speculating about 'What if piracy was legalised globally?'. One of the first things they all agreed on is, it would bring an end to most of the existing media structures. When asked 'Well, where will new content and media come from when these media giants fall?' The answer was immediately put forward, well because the pirates are so creative and morally sound in motivation they will create the new media themselves. Of course it will all be opensource and free to everyone. I thought 'Wow, that's great pirates are willing to work for free, with 0 income for the betterment of mankind to bring us all media content'. I guess they can just depend on someone else to feed, shelter, clothe and protect them as they will be in effect 'media monks'.

In reality, it's purely a delusion being put forward to justify their actions as not only a destructive one, and it also helps to ease their conscious. Most people engaged in this kind of behaviour are quite misinformed about it's impact and do work diligently to create that margin of doubt of it being a victimless crime. It actually made me think of what the world would be like where media was nothing more than a global 'Please be kind rewind' project. Sounds pretty sad to me.

You just hit the nail on the head as to why the various protection schemes actually do little to increase sales. Many, if not most, of the people involved in "pirate" activities simply don't view the world the way you (or I) do, and have a different value system. The crackers/hackers do it for social status, years ago they often made sure their "ID" was included with the "package". I would guess it is still that way. While many of the users of their "products" would do without product "X", before paying for it. Other users will typically be people who simply can not afford to buy the retail version. Neither one of these groups will buy the products. So the few people who don't fit these two major groups, might buy the product. So for what DAZ is doing, the big question is will the few people who might now buy their encrypted content offset the number of people who now won't buy encrypted content? Of course this all assumes that the content isn't cracked and put up on pirate sites anyway. If cracked versions are redistributed, then really all that has happened is lost sales from people who won't buy the encrypted content, or that are much more selective and by less content due to encryption

It's important to remember that the "pirates" and their "customers" do not see the world the same way other people do.

Of course this is just my opinion.

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