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Old 01-31-2007, 11:52 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
Interesting.. I think it's a bit odd to blame the piracy directly, they seem to be making the assumption that a high number of those pirated downloads would have purchased the game had the option to pirate not existed, something I don't agree with at all.
I always read about how much money Microsoft has lost due to piracy, or how much record companies lose and they trot out stats saying they believe X number of copies have been pirated and if they multiply that by the list price that is what they lost.

I don't think MS would be in the position they are in now if everyone and their brother hadn't taken Windows 3.1 (from work/friends or whatever), installed it on their home computers and learned their way arounds a computer.

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1-Collect Underpants
2-???
3-Profit!)
  1. Write useful software
  2. Turn a blind eye so people pirate it and eventually "need" it
  3. Profit!
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