The following sentence recaps the entire problem with copyright law.
When you work long hours for a year to make a game, and take your own cash and hire artists and other contractors to provide work for you, all 'on spec' hoping to one day make the investment back, finally produce some original content, and release it for sale (with a demo, a very liberal end user licence, and no intrusive DRM), and then you find some people deliberately copying the game and distributing it for free, you are NOT a happy man.
Yes a very human way of thinking. While im not a psychologist theres enough evidence that this sentiment is very much how our mind is wired up WRONG. Our instinct tells us that this is indisputable evidence that we get screwed. There is however NO evidence that is the case. Out brain is just dislikes loosing gains we worked to archive so much that it blinds us to the right course of action.
So what your thinking here is money you already should have earned but lost because of that spread. Well are you sure, that money actually comes in? Id bet it doesent. See ts not that the people are dishonest or unreliable as general, most of who download the pirated version probably were not intending to pay in first place.
What is your goal? To make as much money as possible? You could equally think that the pirate mans you are worth buying. IT serves as a advertisement for you. And because its unlikely that it took any amount of money form your gains isn't sure as hell didn't hurt you either. Imagine a group of people who all play the coolest games, some of them might use pirates but all their friends might not. Or maybe its just signaling you you've overpriced your goods... now it might sound silly but if you actually price right you could gain more money.
This is the sort of thing we are missing today. Whats the goal of the law protect rich form poor? Well sure lets do that, we don't have much future that way tough.
Measuring this is hard, but rest assured its not a one way street. Besides the purpose of technology is to make life better, take pride in the fact that you made peoples lives better while you were at it. Not all of these people could have bought it.
But yes the biggest problem of copyright is the fact that it just gets nowadays it does not give fact. And yu can copyright anything today, even things that have existed for thousands of years.
And just so you know i live by copyrights too, but my biggest concern is that RUNNING of the whole model uses up more resources than it gives out. Its fine to get money out of your work but perpetual right is downright insane. And yes sometimes the copyright laws are downright stupid.
Like the nonbreakable drm, i mean if you record some drm media thats yours then the drm prevents you form copying your own copyright (this already exists and has for a long while). Yes its scheme for the hardware manufacturers to gang up with media players to say who can and who cant do what. isn't that against anti-monopoly laws
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Yes a very human way of thinking. While im not a psychologist theres enough evidence that this sentiment is very much how our mind is wired up WRONG. Our instinct tells us that this is indisputable evidence that we get screwed. There is however NO evidence that is the case. Out brain is just dislikes loosing gains we worked to archive so much that it blinds us to the right course of action.
So what your thinking here is money you already should have earned but lost because of that spread. Well are you sure, that money actually comes in? Id bet it doesent. See ts not that the people are dishonest or unreliable as general, most of who download the pirated version probably were not intending to pay in first place.
What is your goal? To make as much money as possible? You could equally think that the pirate mans you are worth buying. IT serves as a advertisement for you. And because its unlikely that it took any amount of money form your gains isn't sure as hell didn't hurt you either. Imagine a group of people who all play the coolest games, some of them might use pirates but all their friends might not. Or maybe its just signaling you you've overpriced your goods... now it might sound silly but if you actually price right you could gain more money.
This is the sort of thing we are missing today. Whats the goal of the law protect rich form poor? Well sure lets do that, we don't have much future that way tough.
Measuring this is hard, but rest assured its not a one way street. Besides the purpose of technology is to make life better, take pride in the fact that you made peoples lives better while you were at it. Not all of these people could have bought it.
But yes the biggest problem of copyright is the fact that it just gets nowadays it does not give fact. And yu can copyright anything today, even things that have existed for thousands of years.
And just so you know i live by copyrights too, but my biggest concern is that RUNNING of the whole model uses up more resources than it gives out. Its fine to get money out of your work but perpetual right is downright insane. And yes sometimes the copyright laws are downright stupid.
Like the nonbreakable drm, i mean if you record some drm media thats yours then the drm prevents you form copying your own copyright (this already exists and has for a long while). Yes its scheme for the hardware manufacturers to gang up with media players to say who can and who cant do what. isn't that against anti-monopoly laws