EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, tried to hide findings

Re:EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, t... by sklivvz1971 on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:47AM (#15309918)

In a world where copying music is essentially free (not 0.99$ as you say), you are free to sell copies for whatever amount. Good luck with that. Perhaps by adding side value it'll work.

Video games are a good example of something that works: the marginal cost, and actual copy-proof value of many games are updates and content. See World of Warcraft. Pay to play.

At least you are paying for something that actually costs money (again: a download is essentially free to the seller).

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Re:EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, t... by BearGoesChirp on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:49AM (#15312114)

>Good luck with that. Perhaps by adding side value it'll work.

The issue is why do I get to sell someone else's work? And even if we did allow it, this would quickly lead to content producers not being able to continue to produce.

Imagine for a second if Steam could just take any video games and sell them keeping 100% of the profit. How would that impact production of video games?

>See World of Warcraft. Pay to play.

So create a market where only always online games are ever made? That doesn't seem a step backwards?

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