Honestly in my experience if something is actually worth the money that developers are charging for a product, then most people have no problem shelling out that kind of cash. I know plenty of other students who download music, movies, etc quite a bit, and if it's an exceptionally good piece then they usually go out and get a hard copy of it.
This why I like to think that all the file sharing being done helps get brand names and such out there. It's kind of like the product samples you get at supermarkets, except on a global scale.
Not to mention, no matter how much noise is made over all this, there are still gonna be people finding ways around all legal bs.
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I'm still waiting on my wall made out of actual fire
Good to see that even a founding father of the nation isn't immune from the loan sharks (aka librarians) of the library systems.
Honestly in my experience if something is actually worth the money that developers are charging for a product, then most people have no problem shelling out that kind of cash. I know plenty of other students who download music, movies, etc quite a bit, and if it's an exceptionally good piece then they usually go out and get a hard copy of it. This why I like to think that all the file sharing being done helps get brand names and such out there. It's kind of like the product samples you get at supermarkets, except on a global scale. Not to mention, no matter how much noise is made over all this, there are still gonna be people finding ways around all legal bs.