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New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony (www.cbr.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

I started using pirated software in 1990, back when my first PC was gifted to me. All software I had was copied because I could not afford jack shit on my own. It is thanks to pirated (and open source) software that I have the career I have, and can afford to spend thousands of dollars on legitimate software, music, movies, books, etc.

Provide product people want and prices they can afford, and they'll buy them rather than pirate them. Don't persecute consumers of pirated products and most of them will eventually purchase legally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I got my first computer, an Apple II, back in the 1980s as a hand-me-down from my (much older) brother when he left for college and I was just 6.

All but one disk was pirated.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's like Gabe said (paraphrased): "Piracy is a service problem, not a pricing problem."

Make it easy to buy stuff and people will. But the more barriers you put up, the more people will pirate. Granted, there are persons like you (and I counted among those at one point) who cannot afford things from time-to-time, but we're a minority. Every game I've ever pirated from those days I have made sure to purchase once I was able to.

Make it available for easy purchase and people will buy it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Make it easy to buy stuff and people will.

In case you haven't worked it out by now, the following advice may be of help:

They're not gonna do that