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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4747952" data-attributes="member: 71571">Paying for your books is a very simple proposition.Any world where someone can feed himself and lead a good life doing something he loves is a good world.There are three types of pirates:1) Those who will pay for it anyways.2) Those that would have paid for it, but won't pay for it because now they have a copy, so why bother?3) Those that would never pay.The first group helps this artist eat.  The second group -might- help this artist eat, but the third group makes it so the second group doesn't 'have to.'  So the third group is a bunch of douchebags that are taking a work that people like, and harming the person, actively hindering him from making more.The misconception is that anti-piracy measures are meant to catch all pirates; this is not true nor realistic.  The first type of pirate doesn't create damages to the company, so there's no gain there.  The third type doesn't create revenue for the company in a piracy-free situation, so there's no gain there, however, because they fuel the second group, they are actively creating a loss for the company.However, the second group, when piracy is made harder, will create revenue for the company and therefore there might be worth in curtailing piracy (which generates sales from this group.)I like artists making stuff I like.  Bottom line: Unless the artist says otherwise, piracy makes it harder for him to make stuff I like, and I don't desire to contribute to the further suckening of this world.</blockquote>

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