Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by account42 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:30AM
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If I download the GIMP, should that count as a lost sale to Pixelmator. Should the law somehow protect them from that?
Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy
by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:41PM
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That sounds more like a failure of marketing on Pixelmator's part.
If I pirate say a $500 graphics editing suite I can easily believe that does not represent a lost sale to the maker of that software. There is simply no way I'd buy a $500 graphics editing suite.
But it might represent a lost sale to Pixelmator, because if I could not pirate the $500 graphics editing suite and could not afford to buy it I would have turned to a less expensive solution, such as Pixelmator Pro which is $40 and I can afford.