I would suggest that the fact that it's so much more risky to steal physical goods has a lot more to do with it than any reamings people get, or fear they will get.
When people get reamed by some physical product (hehe), they don't go steal the next version of that horrible product. They don't go out and steal a similar product made by a competitor. They either take it back, or just make a pfffft sound and go buy something else, especially if that something costs a dollar. If you are lured into buying a shitty cup of coffee by one of those cardboard foldouts with a picture of coffee and a hot chick on it, do you vow to steal all coffee forever to retaliate against the purveyors of shitty coffee tricking people out of their hard earned Sackies?
Of course not. Why? Because you know you are much more likely to get caught and punished.
Even if you end up buying several cups of shitty coffee from multiple vendors, each time tricked by subliminal advertising, you are STILL only out several bucks. At that point most people come to realize that a one dollar cup of coffee tends to suck, and maybe look into buying bubble gum or something with that dollar instead.
A lot of us will steal in safer circumstances, though. Every coffee service with a donation box that I have ever encountered is chronically underfunded. I know many people that shoplifted as kids, and have vivid memories of edging out the record store with an LP pressed against my belly, while my buddies distracted the clerk. I did it until I got caught.... which was something I had assigned a very remote probability to up until then.
We pirate digital goods because we're pretty sure can get away with it. We can hide our nefarious doings with our constitutionally protected privacy. We goad powerful corporations into undermining our privacy to protect their interests, and it's a lot of time, money, and effort to fend them off. If they are successful, the penalty will have been much worse that a shoplifting bust, all so we can have dollar apps for free.
I hate my stuff getting pirated as much as anybody, but DRM does very little to stop it. All it effectively is is something to tell people when they're stealing.
It's Freemium for me from here on out. I hate freemium, but I hate getting ripped off more. If I weren't a one man shop, barely scraping by, I'd be more generous.
Hate that freemium, always-connected games are taking over the marketplace? Thank a pirate. I don't know about the big studios, but for a lot of us little guys, curtailing piracy is a matter of survival, and always-connected games are the only effective solution. This requires a backend, which requires a steady revenue stream to keep it running.
It's going to be interesting to see how it works out as pirates have access to fewer and fewer titles. Will they start spending money on free to play games, or will they just drop out? Will I make more or less money?
Either way, they're not getting my best goodies for free anymore, and there's satisfaction in that.
As a developer, I can verify this. Some of them will send us phones, some won't. The cost of the phone isn't the big thing, the time involved in testing on each and every one is. Not to mention dealing with the enraged fanboids that raise hell about bugs in the app they pirated to begin with.
Android just isn't worth the effort. Your work is rewarded by getting ripped off and abused.
... since we are incapable of reducing CO2 production.
We're doubling the population every 40 years. If humans are causing global warming with CO2 production, it's just going to get worse, unless we get our breeding under control. That isn't going to happen, as will be proven by the replies to this. There will be variations on:
* The population is actually declining! * Why do you hate babies? * Malthus said we'd all be starving by now, but we're just fine, therefore we can make as many people as we want. * Breeding is a human right!... among other things.
Maybe we'll we can cut per capita C02 production, but the population growth will overrun it.
It' didn't go so well for me. I was 12, uncoordinated, and had never soldered before. I, my desk, and everything on it were covered in burns by the time I was done, and I never could get it to work. Had to send it in to have them fix it for me. It was a mess... I suspect they just yanked the z80 and threw the rest away.
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I don't care much for the adaptations, to be honest. Free to play and always connected don't inspire me.
I would suggest that the fact that it's so much more risky to steal physical goods has a lot more to do with it than any reamings people get, or fear they will get.
When people get reamed by some physical product (hehe), they don't go steal the next version of that horrible product. They don't go out and steal a similar product made by a competitor. They either take it back, or just make a pfffft sound and go buy something else, especially if that something costs a dollar. If you are lured into buying a shitty cup of coffee by one of those cardboard foldouts with a picture of coffee and a hot chick on it, do you vow to steal all coffee forever to retaliate against the purveyors of shitty coffee tricking people out of their hard earned Sackies?
Of course not. Why? Because you know you are much more likely to get caught and punished.
Even if you end up buying several cups of shitty coffee from multiple vendors, each time tricked by subliminal advertising, you are STILL only out several bucks. At that point most people come to realize that a one dollar cup of coffee tends to suck, and maybe look into buying bubble gum or something with that dollar instead.
A lot of us will steal in safer circumstances, though. Every coffee service with a donation box that I have ever encountered is chronically underfunded. I know many people that shoplifted as kids, and have vivid memories of edging out the record store with an LP pressed against my belly, while my buddies distracted the clerk. I did it until I got caught.... which was something I had assigned a very remote probability to up until then.
We pirate digital goods because we're pretty sure can get away with it. We can hide our nefarious doings with our constitutionally protected privacy. We goad powerful corporations into undermining our privacy to protect their interests, and it's a lot of time, money, and effort to fend them off. If they are successful, the penalty will have been much worse that a shoplifting bust, all so we can have dollar apps for free.
If you worried less about what other people think about it, you might find that iOS is pretty good.
You still wouldn't be one of the cool kids though.
This is the end of the road. We are the future generations whose future was sold.
Maybe YOUR car only operates in a 2D plane, but mine has left the ground on numerous occasions.
I'll activate bullet time and leap to the side, making me difficult to hit while giving me time to aim carefully.
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All better.
Thanks for addressing the "condescending Asian prick" requirement.
Not shills... Neckbeards who have associated their identity with Android. In a word: Fanboids.
Wrong + white = racist
...and if that don't work, Fuck it.
I hate my stuff getting pirated as much as anybody, but DRM does very little to stop it. All it effectively is is something to tell people when they're stealing.
It's Freemium for me from here on out. I hate freemium, but I hate getting ripped off more. If I weren't a one man shop, barely scraping by, I'd be more generous.
Hate that freemium, always-connected games are taking over the marketplace? Thank a pirate. I don't know about the big studios, but for a lot of us little guys, curtailing piracy is a matter of survival, and always-connected games are the only effective solution. This requires a backend, which requires a steady revenue stream to keep it running.
It's going to be interesting to see how it works out as pirates have access to fewer and fewer titles. Will they start spending money on free to play games, or will they just drop out? Will I make more or less money?
Either way, they're not getting my best goodies for free anymore, and there's satisfaction in that.
...I was hearing it when I read Sony articles, and now this one.
Why should the incompetent devs make all the support money?
But you prove his point...
Which, given the current unpolished state of linux desktop apps, might just put the kids off computers altogether.
When you give somebody a broken, buggy mess after promising them the moon, they tend to get rude and ungrateful.
A textbook example of fanboid rage, of the passive aggressive variety.
As a developer, I can verify this. Some of them will send us phones, some won't. The cost of the phone isn't the big thing, the time involved in testing on each and every one is. Not to mention dealing with the enraged fanboids that raise hell about bugs in the app they pirated to begin with.
Android just isn't worth the effort. Your work is rewarded by getting ripped off and abused.
Wave a C note around and congressmen Bedfellow will gladly give you his password.
...meth is cheaper and easier to get than ever.
... since we are incapable of reducing CO2 production.
We're doubling the population every 40 years. If humans are causing global warming with CO2 production, it's just going to get worse, unless we get our breeding under control. That isn't going to happen, as will be proven by the replies to this. There will be variations on:
* The population is actually declining! ... among other things.
* Why do you hate babies?
* Malthus said we'd all be starving by now, but we're just fine, therefore we can make as many people as we want.
* Breeding is a human right!
Maybe we'll we can cut per capita C02 production, but the population growth will overrun it.
It' didn't go so well for me. I was 12, uncoordinated, and had never soldered before. I, my desk, and everything on it were covered in burns by the time I was done, and I never could get it to work. Had to send it in to have them fix it for me. It was a mess... I suspect they just yanked the z80 and threw the rest away.
Soiled pants are the goal of terrorism, so I guess you could call that a win.