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<blockquote data-quote="PetriWessman" data-source="post: 2725668" data-attributes="member: 20228">I get it from a lot of places. Look at the iTunes music store. You can easily get all that music from the p2p networks for free, but somehow Apple is running a booming business. By your logic, that should be impossible. I get it from observing how people around me (me included) act. I've personally paid for some music that I could have *legally* gotten for free, just to support the artist.At the core, most people are honest. Make doing the legal thing easy, pleasant and affordable, and they will go for it. Not all, but most.Some people I know download illegal PDFs of rpg books, and then buy the stuff they like. I know for a fact that they buy, since I see what their bookshelf looks like. I personally don't know of anyone who just copies and never buys, but maybe that's because my and my friends are in the over 30 bracket, we have enough disposable income so we can usually buy whatever we like. If we were a lot younger and had much more limited income, I've no doubt I'd know someone who'd be a never-pay-for-anything weasel.If you think that people will never (or very rarely) buy things they can easily get for free, then you're saying the iTunes music store cannot do business. And you'd be wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PetriWessman, post: 2725668, member: 20228"] I get it from a lot of places. Look at the iTunes music store. You can easily get all that music from the p2p networks for free, but somehow Apple is running a booming business. By your logic, that should be impossible. I get it from observing how people around me (me included) act. I've personally paid for some music that I could have *legally* gotten for free, just to support the artist. At the core, most people are honest. Make doing the legal thing easy, pleasant and affordable, and they will go for it. Not all, but most. Some people I know download illegal PDFs of rpg books, and then buy the stuff they like. I know for a fact that they buy, since I see what their bookshelf looks like. I personally don't know of anyone who just copies and never buys, but maybe that's because my and my friends are in the over 30 bracket, we have enough disposable income so we can usually buy whatever we like. If we were a lot younger and had much more limited income, I've no doubt I'd know someone who'd be a never-pay-for-anything weasel. If you think that people will never (or very rarely) buy things they can easily get for free, then you're saying the iTunes music store cannot do business. And you'd be wrong. [/QUOTE]

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