The industry has changed a lot in 10 years. The market leaders have changed. If more people buy, the industry makes as big a profit if it charges less, and draws more customers. Basic economics.
And I was talking hypothetically when I was converting all illegal downloads to purchases. I know it wouldn't work like that, I was just saying that I'd like it if it did work like that.
I think it really HASN'T changed, and that's the problem. If they had rectified pricing and made music available for purchase by other means, sooner, then illegal downloading wouldn't have become as big of a thing. Thing is, people had no choices for legal downloading for far too long, so even people who maybe never would've done it, now find it to be normal and inconsequential. We had far too much time to 'get used to' illegal downloading.
I totally agree that people are too used to the privilage of free music for it to be easy to change the law. A better way would be to change culture, and that is damned difficult. If laws were changed earlier it would have been better, but governments are always years behind technology, which is a big problem in itself.
How should people who pirate music/games be punished?
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The industry has changed a lot in 10 years. The market leaders have changed. If more people buy, the industry makes as big a profit if it charges less, and draws more customers. Basic economics.
And I was talking hypothetically when I was converting all illegal downloads to purchases. I know it wouldn't work like that, I was just saying that I'd like it if it did work like that.
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I think it really HASN'T changed, and that's the problem. If they had rectified pricing and made music available for purchase by other means, sooner, then illegal downloading wouldn't have become as big of a thing. Thing is, people had no choices for legal downloading for far too long, so even people who maybe never would've done it, now find it to be normal and inconsequential. We had far too much time to 'get used to' illegal downloading.
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I totally agree that people are too used to the privilage of free music for it to be easy to change the law. A better way would be to change culture, and that is damned difficult. If laws were changed earlier it would have been better, but governments are always years behind technology, which is a big problem in itself.