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Originally Posted by Cirex To steal means you take something away from someone. If I steal a car, the owner doesn't have it. If I download a song, the owner still has full powers over it. Don't forget that stealing has a profit intention (selling a car, in example). Downloading has no economical profit (if you do, then it's illegal). Downloading doesn't equal stealing.
Harvard studies, among others, reached this conclussion :
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You know what that means? That people who download stuff wouldn't have paid for it anyways. And the people who download and buy the same product don't count for "stadistics".
If right now I download 25 D&D books that I do not own, I'm causing zero economical harm to WotC, since I wouldn't have bought them anyways. Oh, and I am not breaking my nation's law.
*If you want to read the full source :
The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales
An Empirical Analysis
Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Harvard University
Koleman Strumpf
University of Kansas
PS : Comparing piracy and murder to downloading stuff screams "brainwashing" and "lack of any valid point" like no other thing.
Piratecat, I would gladly have a conversation with you, by e-mail, about the subject. |
Well, one problem with quoting anyone in academia is youll find just as many desenters. but despite anything they might say about such nonsense, the basic fact is this. If a company also sells pdfs of their products, and
wotc does, i believe, than the fact the those illegal pdfs are out there means that they were not paid for, resulting in a loss. This is ridiculously simple, if a company charges x bucks for a pdf, then y amount of people dont pay for it...Guess what!!! That means X times y is the amount of money that the company should have gotten but dosent. Simple math seems very simple indeed.
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