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Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy?
Andorin writes "Anyone familiar with the piracy debate knows about the claims from organizations like the RIAA that piracy causes billions of dollars in damages and costs thousands of jobs. Other studies have concluded differently, ranging from finding practically no damages to a newer study that cites 'up to 20%' as a more accurate number (PDF). I figure there's got to be an easier way to do this, so here's my question: Does anyone know of any creative works that were provably a financial failure due to piracy? The emphasis on 'provably' is important, as some form of evidence is necessary. Accurately and precisely quantifying damages from p2p is impossibly hard, of course, but answering questions like this may lead us to a clearer picture of just how harmful file sharing really is. I would think that if piracy does cause some amount of substantial harm, we would see that fact reflected in our creative works, but I've never heard of a work that tanked because people shared it online."
Should you only get paid for first time a copy is sold? Yes.
People with normal jobs don't just work a day or two and expect to keep the money rolling in.
They've worked their entire lives prior to that day, learning and studying and working hard
Fuck You.
I too have studied/worked for more than a decade before becoming a specialist.
Do you think an author should only be able to sell a book once?
Yes. Because that's how it is for everybody else.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
When did the point of art become profit? I thought "art" was made because the author had some sort of passion or talent for what they were doing. If you're just making it to make a profit off of it, doesn't that just make it a product? Why do we keep calling this stuff art? I've seen pieces by "starving artist"-types whining and crying about how people are stealing all their work and not paying for it, etc etc, and every time I read them I find myself asking the question "Well, why are you trying 'art' as a career? Get a real job like the rest of us and do your art because you're in love with it, in your spare time."
How many Gaga fans are on /.? For Christ sake, she is far from talented, and I wouldnt fuck her with YOUR dick. Mod me as troll all day, see if I give a shit. TROLL ALL DAY.
He explicitly states that the piracy rate is no higher on Mac, so if they didn't sell enough, it was their broken business plan, and piracy was irrelevant. It's proof that piracy didn't cause a problem on Mac. Perhaps it was the fact it was released late and, from what I understand, suffers from what everything Microsoft touched related to Mac gaming in that they actively blocked Mac/PC interoperability.
That is, when a friend buys WoW for the Mac and I buy WoW for the PC, the same disks are used on both machines, you buy it once and have those in case you want to reinstall on a new computer and it's a different platform, and when you play, the Mac and the PC play together on the exact same game. But with Microsoft cross-platform, you get two independent and unconnected games with the same name. No cross platform disks. No cross platform play. And usually a long delay between the PC and Mac releases. And they both assert piracy to be at or below PC rates, yet claim it was piracy and nothing else that caused the game to be a marketing failure.
And you believe them.
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So she can play the piano with the technical skill of a child taking piano lessons, and hold a note without autotune. That's just performing, not making significant music that is good 60 years from now.
You do not have the right to take the work of others with impunity. That you believe you do shows you are megalomaniacal sociopath.
You care about the betterment of mankind the way psychopathic totalitarian dictators care about their people.
If those weren't your only credentials you would have listed them.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
I am not the greedy sociopath claiming my selfish behavior is for the betterment of mankind. You are. You are the one that needs to get better. I suggest you go check yourself into an asylum and get some counseling.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
I wouldnt want someone to come along and try to pass off my songs as their own.
Then move to France. Authors rights are unrelated to copyright. It is fraud to claim you wrote something you didn't, but that is unrelated to whether you or anyone else gets a monopoly on reproducing it.
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I have never argued that piracy is legitimate. From a consumer's perspective, piracy is wrong (I will except from this those who pirate as a means to sample before buying. The morality of this can be argued, but is not part of the case I am making one way or the other). From a producer's perspective, I believe that piracy is generally a net positive. There have been several studies that have demonstrated that on average those who pirate buy more legitimate copies of the product class being studied than the general populace.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison