[opendtv] Re: 'Game of Thrones' was pirated more than a billion times -- far more than it was watched legally
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:09:48 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Duh. That is exactly what I said in the post which you had to disagree
with Bert. But there is a huge difference. Retail theft has real
costs for the business, not the manufacturer, which SOLD the goods to
the retailer.
Ah, the disconnect. Many, many businesses DO NOT have the retailer buying from
the manufacturer, in fact. In many businesses, the manufacturer uses retailers
for distribution of their product. You steal a car from a dealer lot, you are
stealing from the manufacturer. Much the same in food stores.
That is why they have security cameras and plain clothes guards
Yup. Stealing is stealing. A distributor who keeps losing merchandise will go
out of business. Take the guy who pirates a movie, or season of some show, or
even episode by episode as they are transmitted, and gives it away for free. Or
worse, resells to make a profit from his piracy. When this happens, the
millions of $ the studios spent for that content will be compensated by fewer
people. Some, maybe many of those who follow the show, or who would otherwise
have gone to the theater to watch a new movie, will just use that freebie
instead.
If ad-supported, makes no difference. The guy buying those ad minutes won't pay
for lost eyeballs.
Same applies to companies like Microsoft, because so many people around the
world steal their software. It only makes the rest of us pay that much more.
So, we are subsidizing all those thieves everywhere, to pay for software
development. People like you rationalize this, saying that their profits are
too high anyway. And it is no doubt true that in the US, people are certainly
more able to pay for this expensive stuff than they are in many other parts.
But it's just as true that those businesses could be charging less to paying
customers, if the freeloaders were fewer in number.
Just because a product of value is a "digital file" does not make it different
from an object on a store shelf.
Bert
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