My Opinion On Piracy

[Kurupshin]

You can have your own beliefs on the ethics of piracy. But if the companies were smart, they would see that if they just lowered their prices for stuff, people would stop pirating.

I buy music cd's of all groups I like, but I've downloaded a ton of songs

However, if music cd's were only 4.99 then, I would buy just about any decent rap cd (hey i like rap)

I have tons of divx movies. The good ones I buy on DVD for the Home theater HDTV DTS effect.

However, for those decent ones, if they were only 7.99, I would buy them, just to have them and not go through hassle of DLing them. Especially for those comedies you get tired of a few times. Why pay 30 bucks for them when you'll only watch them once or twice and the quality doesn't matter.

For games, they should be 20-30 dollars tops.

I just bought SS2 cause it was 15 bucks.

The game is ok, but I felt good spending 15 dollars on a new game.

As for RTCW, I didn't buy that cause it really didn't deserve to pay 59.99 for only 15-20 hours of play. If that was 30 bucks I would have bought it the day it came out.

If these companies were smart, they would lower the price to the point where the consumer doesn't feel ripped off, and they would sell twice as many copies, there by making the same profit. They have to make stuff cheap enuff so it doesn't make sense to pirate things. People will end up buying twice as many everything. I guarantee it. I find it pretty hard to throw down 19.99 for a cd, whether there are mp3's or not. Just my .02

I think many will agree with me.

Oops wrong forum, plz move to off topic.

 

[yomega]

I have two things to say,
1 - This should have been posted in off topic and
2 - If Micro$oft added anti-piracy stuff to its software, why didn't they lower the price?

 

[tornadobox]

first, this belongs in off topic, not the general hardware forum.

second, i don't agree with you at all. even if prices did go down, the pirated versions and hacked versions etc. would still be floating around the internet. with the price drops, you'd still get complaints that the prices are all too high. you can't say that piracy would stop if prices were lower, because those who pirate don't care about prices, all they care about is getting their stuff for free.

i took several programming classes, and got a newfound respect for programmers and what they do, so that is why i buy legal software, to support the programmers and developers.

why do you think some kid who won't pay $50 for a game would pay $30? Furthermore, why do you say that people would buy MORE if the prices were lower? Aren't you saying that it costs too much anyway?