Does it pay to pirate in South Africa?

Are you still living in 2009 jan? High bandwidth prices? Well i guess if you compare them to some countries yes but bandwidth is flippin cheap now dude.

For the price of say corel draw, you could have 4 months of 4 meg uncapped :D. Now take the price of the adobe suite, 16k or somewhere there that is nearly 2 years of 4 meg uncapped :D.
 
I just love this CYA quote added at the end:

These costs don't only apply to piracy – which is illegal and should obviously be discouraged – but also to music and movie downloads through legal content distribution networks like iTunes, Amazon and local Internet music stores.
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These cost doesn't apply to only stores, because you actually have to pay for the content at these stores. But officially ;-) this article does not encourage pirating.
 
I like how they mention the cap in the uncapped section.
 
What's with all the Piracy threads??? :confused:

Are you thinking of taking to the high seas? :D

Does it pay to pirate in South Africa?
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No... I do it for free. :whistling:
 
Considering the fact that there are full discographies and ripped box sets and all sorts of media that you cannot easily find and buy in SA I think piracy wins hands down in the economy dept. even with the old broadband prices.
 
killadoob said:
Are you still living in 2009 jan? High bandwidth prices? Well i guess if you compare them to some countries yes but bandwidth is flippin cheap now dude.
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Check out the pretty table I drew for you guys. On ADSL it's generally become cheaper to pirate than to get the stuff legitimately, but most of the country is actually on mobile broadband where it's quite expensive to be a pirate.

xumwun said:
I like how they mention the cap in the uncapped section.
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Ah -- that's some poor explaining on my part. What those 'caps' are supposed to signify is usage on uncapped. It effectively gets cheaper to download stuff the more bandwidth you use on an uncapped account. If you 'only' pull 50GB a month on your uncapped account it's effectively more expensive for you to download a 3GB game demo than for someone pulling 200+GB.
 
If television networks, movie and record companies had thought ahead and created their own online services that worked similar to rapidshare and charged a reasonable monthy or yearly subscription they'd be making loads of money. We arrrrrrr not real pirates since we don't make a cent off piracy.
 
ndlovue6 said:
LOL @ this article. Has no basis whatsoever
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Its not going to win a Pulitzer but its not bad either.

Piracy is often seen as a [-]free[/-] cheap way to get access to content
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FTFY

Also, the album & song info doesn't quite gel. The song cost to buy per meg is higher than for the album. Pretty sure that in reality its the other way around.
 
ndlovue6 said:
LOL @ this article. Has no basis whatsoever
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Please explain?

The article uses some references and also uses current-day bandwidth and product prices to draw comparisons between the two. It's generalised and uses average costs or bandwidth figures but that's how you work these things out. That right there, is basis.

theone said:
If television networks, movie and record companies had thought ahead and created their own online services that worked similar to rapidshare and charged a reasonable monthy or yearly subscription they'd be making loads of money. We arrrrrrr not real pirates since we don't make a cent off piracy.
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I tend to agree with you. All the service sites that they have overseas would be making more money if it weren't for the silly localised copyright laws that restrict us from getting to them. Blame the consumer for pirating, sure, but blame the distributor for not making it available for us to actually buy in this country (without having to ship it in myself).
 
Alot of people pirate movies so they don't need to waste their money and time to see cr4p in cinemas, the good ones they'll go and buy or pay to watch regardless if they pirate them.
 
WildPikachu said:
Alot of people pirate movies so they don't need to waste their money and time to see cr4p in cinemas, the good ones they'll go and buy or pay to watch regardless if they pirate them.
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If you don't want to see the crap in the cinema, why would you want to see it outside the cinema? Crap is crap.
 
Oi! I already pay my ISP a massive profit for access to content. So they can take that money and pay whoever needs it. As far as I am concerned, I have paid for everything that comes over my line. And the consumer act will back me up on this one.
 
greg_SA said:
So if I steal something and don't sell it, then I'm not a real thief?
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you would be a thief as you as the person you stole from would no longer have the use of what you stole....
 
This does not allow for normal copy/paste pirating. So one person downloads something and then just gives it to his friends here in SA. I am willing to bet that this is how most of the content is spread around here in SA.

So this would dilute the figures a bit.

Normally when I ask someone were he got Season X of Y the response would be from a friend.
 
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These buys blow the figures out of proportion....50B$...so iron man was downloaded 5 million times....multiply that by x and then by x...and you get the loss they perceive...
BS,just cause I download something does not mean i would go to the cinemas to watch it/ Buy it / rent it

or even watch it once i downloaded it for that matter...
 
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