Arn’t you tired of such headlines already?
China piracy costs film industry $2.7 bln in 2005
You could easily change “film” to “software” or anything that the Chinese copies - furniture, apparel, shoes, bags…
Without revealing how the figures are arrived at, one can only read such report as propaganda at best.
Sure, I brought bootleg videos along the road. Did the original company lost revenue? Not in my case. I never would buy the real thing anyway. What then is the number of people who would have buy the real thing but ended up buying the pirated version? Between 0 and $2.7b?
To state plainly, I am not for piracy. On the other hand, I’m not for lamenting priacy lost as well.
It has been presented and argued that the solution is on another dimension, a paradigm shift, a different business model.
The same thing with software.
But then, China is not ready yet. It will not for the next 5 years at least.
Choices: Continue lamenting or craveout a piece of the future pie?
You are absolutely right. It is the biggest argument with the RIAA as well. It has been proven stastically that the prople who buy boot leg or download mp3 will not buy the song in its original incarnation anyway.
Also notice they always talk about “potential sales”.
So how we can draw a parallel argument with this absurd agreement of well if you dont design this product to well, you must reinbused me with X number of lost sales. Such an argument will never hold in court and i dont understand how the RIAA can continue to push such a argument.
Note: I dont support illeagal downloads. I only buy original CDs.