A minor increase in sales due to people who would have avoided buying DRM'ed ebooks will be balanced out by a minor decrease in sales due to an increase in casual piracy (those who arent bothered to go looking for a pirated version, but wont mind taking a copy from a friend who buys it) Its possible that the casual piracy may lead to more sales as well, but thats questionable at best
Do they really store ALL email traffic, or just profile and store from selected accounts? The 3GB of mails from my GMail consisting of newsletters and college projects, and millions of other accounts like mine: arent they essentially useless and a waste of space for them?
the point is though, that whoever pushed this brand and phone had sales channels in india and india does have a sizable portion of tech geeks with money to burn on new platforms.
Except that most of the brands Intel has tied up with are popular in India primarily for selling ultra cheap chinese rebranded phones Noone really buys phones worth more than USD 50 (100 at best) from them
We are FLOODED with feature phones here Need more stuff in the high end range which is typically delayed by 2 - 6 months compared to US, if ever released The cheapest Nokia costs less than USD20, other brands have even cheaper models
Games have been sold with just an offline serial check and were resellable for quite a few years Did the industry see a significant increase in income after complicatiog these parts?
What if you got the car for free, with the clause that it must be serviced/fueled by the manufacturer? (Analogy does start to fall apart at this point due to the car being a physical object though)
India The reason is that there is effectively a national monopoly in the broadband space Actually, there are 2 major players. One of which is govt. run and the other is a private player. Downtime and QoS is pretty bad on the govt. company The pvt. company (Airtel) has pretty much been hiking rates for the past 6 years and reducing broadband packages in general. But its really reliable(downtime is rarely more than 30-40 hours/year) Other options with better speeds do exist, but they are limited to just a few colonies of a few cities (even then the best plan you can get is 20mbps till 60GB followed by unlimited at 6mbps) Anything beyond that is unaffordable and limited to businesses
Its going in the reverse direction here Plans started out as 1Mbps Unlimited , then mutated into 1Mbps till 100GB followed by 256kbps and currently stand at 4mbps till 30gb followed by 256kbps Most plans have followed the same path (ADSL plans)
There is a higher probability of someone who pays for a pirated copy to pay for an original copy as compared to someone who gets the pirated copy for free Regional pricing has (not very significantly, but noticeably) affected the pirated game market in India for example
If a) The protocols were proprietary and not open protocols(IDK if Exchange uses IMAP,etc or some proprietary stuff) AND b)The Outlook client was free with an implied understanding that it would be used with an Exchange server, instead of being sold as a separate piece of software Then probably yes
There is absolutely no reason to believe that the money people donated to UMaple would have otherwise been spent with MapleStory.
I'm not talking about a potential loss of revenue for MapleStory, I'm talking about the gain in revenue for UMaple Kind of like the difference between downloading a movie off TPB and selling copies of the movie for a profit And, yeah, the penalty does seem excessive.As I said, "partly" justified
UMaple users can play MapleStory (using the MapleStory client software) without ever touching MapleStory's servers. UMaple then solicits "donations" that lead to enhanced privileges in the UMaple environment.
In this case some penalty does seem justified UMaple was after all making money from software written by MapleStory, without their permission
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Infact, its likely that most people reading this comment would be able to do this in lass than a minute
India atleast implements IP level blocks
If ALL laws were written in a form representable by a DFA, we wouldnt have the disagreements in the 1st place
Emphasis on sample
If the retail releases also have this issue, then its newsworthy
A minor increase in sales due to people who would have avoided buying DRM'ed ebooks will be balanced out by a minor decrease in sales due to an increase in casual piracy (those who arent bothered to go looking for a pirated version, but wont mind taking a copy from a friend who buys it)
Its possible that the casual piracy may lead to more sales as well, but thats questionable at best
Do they really store ALL email traffic, or just profile and store from selected accounts?
The 3GB of mails from my GMail consisting of newsletters and college projects, and millions of other accounts like mine: arent they essentially useless and a waste of space for them?
Is this a first? Premiering a phone in India?
No, Nokia does launch some of their absolute cheapest range in India exclusively IIRC
the point is though, that whoever pushed this brand and phone had sales channels in india and india does have a sizable portion of tech geeks with money to burn on new platforms.
Except that most of the brands Intel has tied up with are popular in India primarily for selling ultra cheap chinese rebranded phones
Noone really buys phones worth more than USD 50 (100 at best) from them
We are FLOODED with feature phones here
Need more stuff in the high end range which is typically delayed by 2 - 6 months compared to US, if ever released
The cheapest Nokia costs less than USD20, other brands have even cheaper models
It takes just one person to upload
Games have been sold with just an offline serial check and were resellable for quite a few years
Did the industry see a significant increase in income after complicatiog these parts?
People spend money
Not technology
What if you got the car for free, with the clause that it must be serviced/fueled by the manufacturer?
(Analogy does start to fall apart at this point due to the car being a physical object though)
India
The reason is that there is effectively a national monopoly in the broadband space
Actually, there are 2 major players. One of which is govt. run and the other is a private player.
Downtime and QoS is pretty bad on the govt. company
The pvt. company (Airtel) has pretty much been hiking rates for the past 6 years and reducing broadband packages in general. But its really reliable(downtime is rarely more than 30-40 hours/year)
Other options with better speeds do exist, but they are limited to just a few colonies of a few cities (even then the best plan you can get is 20mbps till 60GB followed by unlimited at 6mbps)
Anything beyond that is unaffordable and limited to businesses
Its going in the reverse direction here
Plans started out as 1Mbps Unlimited , then mutated into 1Mbps till 100GB followed by 256kbps and currently stand at 4mbps till 30gb followed by 256kbps
Most plans have followed the same path (ADSL plans)
On some days I cross 200, so 98/teen/day does not seem too high
who actually pays for pirated copies these days.
People with limited internet (10 and 30 GB caps are common here)
Is it bait and switch if the bait is essentially free?
There is a higher probability of someone who pays for a pirated copy to pay for an original copy as compared to someone who gets the pirated copy for free
Regional pricing has (not very significantly, but noticeably) affected the pirated game market in India for example
Dont phone manufacturers do the same?
So, why shouldnt the same extend to electronic cars (including safeties to ensure only modifications that the owner approves are allowed)
If those companies owned HTTP, then sure
Or, if the intent of IE,Firefox,etc was to access only their manufacturers websites
If
a) The protocols were proprietary and not open protocols(IDK if Exchange uses IMAP,etc or some proprietary stuff)
AND
b)The Outlook client was free with an implied understanding that it would be used with an Exchange server, instead of being sold as a separate piece of software
Then probably yes
There is absolutely no reason to believe that the money people donated to UMaple would have otherwise been spent with MapleStory.
I'm not talking about a potential loss of revenue for MapleStory, I'm talking about the gain in revenue for UMaple
Kind of like the difference between downloading a movie off TPB and selling copies of the movie for a profit
And, yeah, the penalty does seem excessive.As I said, "partly" justified
UMaple users can play MapleStory (using the MapleStory client software) without ever touching MapleStory's servers. UMaple then solicits "donations" that lead to enhanced privileges in the UMaple environment.
In this case some penalty does seem justified
UMaple was after all making money from software written by MapleStory, without their permission