Originally Posted by recidivist
Stealing is just SO COOL,until you steal from the thief.
I gotta admit this is so true. It goes for software and music downloads. It's the cool thing to do, but if you could go to the pirates house and pick anything from it to just take, they'd have another thing to say.
Excuse me, but WTF are you saying here? Go to a house and take stuff?!? Oh, man...
1. When you download something, you aren't removing any objects. You don't even remove the digitalized information. It's all still there, you aren't taking away anything. No-one will wake up and say "hey, where is the TV?"
2. What may be lost is a sales opportunity, but only if you download it for free instead of buying it. OTOH, if you would never have bought it anyway, not even the sales opportunity is lost.
There are many reasons to *why we don't buy* stuff, like for example that we don't really want it, or we simply can't afford it.
Have you looked at what Adobe is asking for their Master Collection CS5? I'll tell you: US$2,599!
There is *no way* I could possibly pay that kind of money for some software even if I wanted to. I know that, they know that, I'm simply not in their target market (which probably is various media producing corporations).
Still I'm using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash, Acrobat, etc (all from the Master Collection CS5) on an almost daily basis. And you know what? Adobe has lost exactly $0 on me. They haven't lost anything at all, since there is no chance in this world that I would have bought their product anyway. There never were any sales opportunity for them to lose!
If I OTOH would go to Adobes office, smash a window, and grab a monitor from a nearby desk, then they would obviously have lost something.
Do you see the difference?
