Posted by NRen2k5 on 12/05/05 08:24

David C. wrote:
> NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
>>David C. wrote:
>>
>>>NRen2k5 <napsterneorenegade@hotmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>David C. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>"FunkyDevil" <qs8rzr001@sneakemail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Paying for their product does not make you a good person , it just
>>>>>>makes them rich and more aggressive towards the consumer.
>>>>>
>>>>>I hope you someday spend months or years of your life working on
>>>>>something (a book, a song, a software title), that everybody in the
>>>>>world wants, and you never see a penny of profit because everybody is
>>>>>trading pirated copies.
>>>>
>>>>You're wrong. I've heard that argument a dozen times before and it
>>>>doesn't hold any water.
>>>>
>>>>You're broke because the record company didn't give you a penny for
>>>>any of the MILLION copies you sold, NOT because *ten thousand* people
>>>>"stole" it.
>>>
>>>Where did I say anything about "record company"?
>>>Perhaps you should read messages before firing off knee-jerk flames.
>>>-- David
>>
>>It's not a knee-jerk flame. It's how the industry works. You get
>>signed by one of the major record labels (most of the smaller ones are
>>jus subsidiaries of the big ones). Then the record label proceeds to
>>take just about every last cent earned and put it to their own use.
>>
>>Perhaps you should read things twice. I don't like having to type them
>>twice.
>
>
> And why would a book or software author sign up with a record label?
>
> Learn to read before writing replies.
>
> -- David

You should take your own advice; you really don't have a clue.

There aren't any penniless authors or software engineers out there
because of piracy.

Whether or not you can make money off of a product, whatever that
product may be, depends entirely on your ability to garner interest in
the product and bring it to market and whether or not the other parties
involved in taking your product to market leave you with a good share of
the profit or not. Piracy is at best a negligible factor and at worst an
annoyance, depending on what industry you're in.

- NRen2k5

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