Software Piracy hurts economy: BSA

are they working on 10% of 'what pirates theoretically copy' altogether, or what I 'might' have bought, if I didnt download it? Which trust me, isn't alot.
 
According to the Me a 90% reduction in bulldust statistics will lead to significantly less crap posted in online forums, blogs and IT news sources by any day now.
 
THESE PEOPLE ARE FOOLS if i dont pirate then that doesnt mean i will buy it legit
 
I can only second what kevinswan007 and Garyvdh have said. Flip, I know WITHOUT A DOUBT that I wouldn't pay for even 1% of the stuff I download if I wasn't able to download it for free... I'd just do without it... These 'big companies', for lack of a better phrase, can ALL go and take a long walk off a short plank. 'Nuff said.
 
Try this as a proposition. If it wasn't for pirating people would need say less than half the bandwidth and, data cap and storage space they currently use. Go figure figure how many jobs that will cost you.
 
Oh, that time of the year again. It seems we have this same discussion every year at about the same time.

Time to get the Christmas cards ready, almost time...
 
There are such things as opportunity costs. They affect the bottom line of business. Piracy falls into that category.
 
I'm sorry, aren't we going through an economic recession where millions have lost their jobs recently? How can you say findings like this in the current trend is unemployment?

If anything, a small business that pirated it software and saved that money might have just survived long enough to stay in business and get back on it's feet. I don't see how paying for the software would have had any other effect other than perhaps a quicker closure?

four years would create 1,650 high-tech jobs
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It's a pity we are down over half a million jobs over the past two years. How about we focus on restoring those jobs first?
 
How many genuine sales do these software vendors get from people who download pirated software going out and buying the genuine article later?

I have quite a lot of software that I have purchased following a pirated download that impressed me.
 
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While I do not pirate myself, nor do I condone piracy in any way, the BSA and all their reports are complete hogwash. They operate on a false assumption that every pirated copy of something out there is a lost sale. This is not the case, as most folks who pirate stuff (software, movies, TV series, etc) cannot actually afford to buy them - at least not in the quantities they pirate stuff.

In short, the BSA are working on what is called "perceived loss" which is very different to "actual loss". Actual loss? Probably less than 1% of the amount of piracy.

As a side note, I think they charge too much for movies and TV series, and shouldn't charge at all for software. I'll gladly buy a box set of something, but please, it doesn't cost R600 (minimum) to produce that box set!
 
superfly said:
While I do not pirate myself, nor do I condone piracy in any way, the BSA and all their reports are complete hogwash. They operate on a false assumption that every pirated copy of something out there is a lost sale. This is not the case, as most folks who pirate stuff (software, movies, TV series, etc) cannot actually afford to buy them - at least not in the quantities they pirate stuff.

In short, the BSA are working on what is called "perceived loss" which is very different to "actual loss". Actual loss? Probably less than 1% of the amount of piracy.

As a side note, I think they charge too much for movies and TV series, and shouldn't charge at all for software. I'll gladly buy a box set of something, but please, it doesn't cost R600 (minimum) to produce that box set!
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A very good point and exactly what I was thinking. A large percentage of people don't choose to pirate, they're forced to by these very same companies. I would buy the genuine article if the prices were reasonable but don't don't charge me R300 for a Blu Ray movie! FFS!
 
As soon as I see something that starts, "according to the BSA" I find myself unable to believe anything that comes after it...
 
PythonFSi said:
A very good point and exactly what I was thinking. A large percentage of people don't choose to pirate, they're forced to by these very same companies. I would buy the genuine article if the prices were reasonable but don't don't charge me R300 for a Blu Ray movie! FFS!
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Ditto. Charge reasonable prices and people will buy your software. Localising software prices, albeit tricky, would be one way. The other way is to stop ripping off SA consumers a la R300 for a Blu-ray disc. Until then, I download x264 HD movies. It's free...
 
im sure its more a case of we triple and quadruple the real price of items for SA and thats what hurts the economy
 
PythonFSi said:
A very good point and exactly what I was thinking. A large percentage of people don't choose to pirate, they're forced to by these very same companies. I would buy the genuine article if the prices were reasonable but don't don't charge me R300 for a Blu Ray movie! FFS!
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+1
 
PythonFSi said:
A very good point and exactly what I was thinking. A large percentage of people don't choose to pirate, they're forced to by these very same companies. I would buy the genuine article if the prices were reasonable but don't don't charge me R300 for a Blu Ray movie! FFS!
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Don't really want to go down this old path again but I should point out that in a capitalistic society, you pay whatever the seller wants or negotiate a better price with them or go without.
 
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