Re:The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library
by bad_user on Monday December 10, 2012 @01:48PM
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> The technically illiterate
I can assure you, those people can and do pirate content just fine, in many cases being easier to copy it from torrents than it is to purchase it ;-)
> People who have made a conscious decision to support the producer of the content
There are 2 problems with these kind of people: as such purchases are all about giving-back, they are easily pissed off by DRM schemes and they are a minority, because we are talking about an economy based on artificial scarcity here.
> People who fear enforcement of copyright law
Also a minority, especially because the probability of being prosecuted as an individual for copyright infringement is smaller than being hit by a car tomorrow.
> The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation
I can assure you, those people can and do pirate content just fine, in many cases being easier to copy it from torrents than it is to purchase it ;-)
> People who have made a conscious decision to support the producer of the content
There are 2 problems with these kind of people: as such purchases are all about giving-back, they are easily pissed off by DRM schemes and they are a minority, because we are talking about an economy based on artificial scarcity here.
> People who fear enforcement of copyright law
Also a minority, especially because the probability of being prosecuted as an individual for copyright infringement is smaller than being hit by a car tomorrow.
> The whole piracy political movement is manifestly obviously just rationalisation
You cannot hand-wave facts.