DAM
DW
DAM
DW
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Stephen
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> Stephen
> > Dam what, Don?
> > The Amazon?
dw
I was only surprised that we had $7 Billlion in software sales and estimated
$6 billion
in piracy. Just shocked alittle about mankind.
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This $6 billion figure is based on the assumption that for every pirated
copy there is one legit copy sold less.
Suffice it to say that my experience at least is a totally different
one....
Cheers !
Cris
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> Stephen
> > Dam what, Don?
> > The Amazon?
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> > Bruce Kennewell,
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> Stephen Ferguson wrote...
> > Dam the flow of pirated software, of course!
> > Stephen
> > > Dam what, Don?
> > > The Amazon?
> <Snip>
Stephen
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> > Quick thinking there Stephen... congrats! ;-)
> > Jan.
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> > Stephen Ferguson wrote...
> > > Dam the flow of pirated software, of course!
> > > Stephen
> > > > Dam what, Don?
> > > > The Amazon?
> > <Snip>
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While there is certainly rampant piracy, bear in mind that this number is
fiction.
People will play a sim/game for hundreds of hours, and yet complain because
it costs a measly $40.00.
David G Fisher
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This kind of goes along with something I find conceptually similar:
When a wealthy individual or corporation gets some kind of tax break,
someone always stands up to remind us how we are now 'paying their share.'
That makes it sound like the govt sets an amount it is going to collect in
taxes and then bills everyone accordingly.
And this one:
"time is money" Unless you were doing something to make money with the
time, then the use of the time does NOT cost you any money.
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> > This $6 billion figure is based on the assumption that for every pirated
> > copy there is one legit copy sold less.
> Yeah..I don't get this. I am no economic genius and I frequently miss
> something obvious, but how is someone copying a game (and giving it to
> someone who wasn't going to buy it otherwise) costing the developer any
> money at all?
MS
MS
life's little problems *are* that simple. It's the big ones that are
complicated.
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Isn't that what I was saying? If they had no intent to buy the software,
then the software company was not going to make money off them, anyway.
Your fact has nothing to do with the question I asked. The fact that it is
wrong doesn't cost them money. If it does, please explain to me how it
does.
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