Maya Remblai wrote: > New Hax wrote: > >> but on the internet as a content maker you can make INFINITE products >> so you arent losing anything if i copy it and make no money off of it. >> >> > Not true. See the following example that actually happened to me: > > Person A rips a large number of products, including mine. He boxes them > and gives them away, for free, claiming he has my permission (which he > doesn't). Now, the total value of my products involved was $150 USD. If > he only gave the box to 10 people (it was actually more than that) I'm > now out $1500 USD. Person A has done a huge amount of monetary damage to > me by taking away sales. > Digital economy don't work that way, you may actually have gained if the people getting the box likes your products and tel about them. The loss is hard to evaluate, and your count is only sure to high, it's the theoretical max value in lost sales. Thats is giver all then copies have gone to someone even considering your products. and in my experience that likelihood is about 0%.
Studies in the effects vary in there results, it seam clear the people using pirated stuff are the once most likely to spend money on products. Var the results are is hard to tell, but is sure that the content industry is one of the few getting bigger and earing more money through out the current downfall in the economy. Most other industries backed very much, entertainment have not been as hard effected. The online content industries have a all time high. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
