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j_86 · #55 08-31-2004, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ocean

If a person pirates your application - but would not have been able to afford it even if they didn't pirate it - what money have you lost?

This is a point i've been trying to put accross to the staff for ages now.

They believe that all pirates would part with the $80 or the $180 for the software if it wasnt available to them for free.

First, this is about as wrong as you can get. Second, they would just use phpBB or Invision even before *considering* having to pay, which i'm sure i'm right in saying less than of pirates 1% would end up paying for VB if they couldn't have it for free (priated).

It's like the RIAA / Record industry. "Napster and the like cost us $XX.X Billion a year". No, they don't cost them ANYTHING, as a tiny tiny fraction of those people would pay for what they would have pirated.

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