On Brian's Thing On Piracy

rpgdemon · 12-24-2010, 12:25 PM

I kind of have to completely disagree. I personally know someone who has quit making stuff for the iPhone because, after any of his stuff would get popular, some pirate would crack it and sales would immediately cut out.

These are dollar or so apps that we're talking about, too. One would probably spend more time looking for the crack than they would going in to work and making a dollar.

Simmilarly, when the humble indie bundle ran, allowing people to choose their own price, a lot of the total downloads were pirated. I don't have exact numbers on it, but I just remember reading about it. These were prices that anyone could choose, the profits from which were going to charity.

In any case, piracy does hurt the artist, even when they make their works readily available. The Wells analog is a false one: The people buying the magazines and later the book were not part of the current culture of, "No one hurts if I steal a digital copy," and they were not consciously intending to steal Wells' work. Today, the people doing the pirating do so in a self entitled --even self righteous-- manner, and if you suggest that it's the wrong thing to do, they will scoff at you and say how they "rn't hrting anyone", and that you need to get off your high horse and be normal.

12-24-2010, 12:25 PM	#1
rpgdemon Not a Taco Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 3,313	On Brian's Thing On Piracy I kind of have to completely disagree. I personally know someone who has quit making stuff for the iPhone because, after any of his stuff would get popular, some pirate would crack it and sales would immediately cut out. These are dollar or so apps that we're talking about, too. One would probably spend more time looking for the crack than they would going in to work and making a dollar. Simmilarly, when the humble indie bundle ran, allowing people to choose their own price, a lot of the total downloads were pirated. I don't have exact numbers on it, but I just remember reading about it. These were prices that anyone could choose, the profits from which were going to charity. In any case, piracy does hurt the artist, even when they make their works readily available. The Wells analog is a false one: The people buying the magazines and later the book were not part of the current culture of, "No one hurts if I steal a digital copy," and they were not consciously intending to steal Wells' work. Today, the people doing the pirating do so in a self entitled --even self righteous-- manner, and if you suggest that it's the wrong thing to do, they will scoff at you and say how they "rn't hrting anyone", and that you need to get off your high horse and be normal. __________________ I did a lot of posting on here as a teenager, and I was pretty awful. Even after I learned, grew up, and came to be on the right side of a lot of important issues, I was still angry, abrasive, and generally increased the amount of hate in the world, in pretty unacceptable ways. On the off chance that someone is taking a trip down memory lane looking through those old threads, I wanted to devote my signature to say directly to you, I'm sorry. Thank you for letting me be better, NPF.