Online piracy cost 39000 jobs...

IF you could download a ferrari, and then use some star trek tech to materialise it everyone would do it, then ferrari would say they have lost a lot of profit also
 
platinum87 said:
IF you could download a ferrari, and then use some star trek tech to materialise it everyone would do it, then ferrari would say they have lost a lot of profit also
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What? I imagine they probably would, but it would still be the same idea - if I can't download a ferrari, that doesn't mean I'm going to go and buy one. When I used to download music, it was often obscure stuff that can't be bought, or stuff I wouldn't pay for anyway.

Also, how the hell can it cost people's jobs? I can't see ANY link between downloading illegally and someone else's job.
 
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he's saying that ferrari spent money developing the car.. if everyone could get one for free - it would hurt ferrari as less people would pay for them - as they can get them free... so even though its not COSTING ferrari any more, it means that the R+D costs of development are spread over fewer sales...

resulting in a need to cut R+D next time to ensure profitability on the next model... thus cutting jobs...

its based upon future demand generation also?
 
platinum87 said:
IF you could download a ferrari, and then use some star trek tech to materialise it everyone would do it, then ferrari would say they have lost a lot of profit also
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Dear god, I was shocked until I read the username. You should send your CV into the Sun :p
 
platinum87 said:
IF you could download a ferrari, and then use some star trek tech to materialise it everyone would do it, then ferrari would say they have lost a lot of profit also
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You think everyone would buy a Ferrari if they could download one at all? I'm sure there'd be people greedy enough to not buy one even if they could afford it.

That's lost sales.
 
So it all comes out now, you see you start to challenge the corrupt laws these guys are trying to weasel through our political system. What do they do, start coming out with hypothetical sales loss statistics.

That is like saying when we have a bad summer the tourism industry and british airways LOST £1.5billion. They didn't actually loose the money as there is no proof or evidence that the people would have gone on holiday.

The same goes for apparent loss in sales. Just a bunch of greedy BIG MEDIA execs wishing it was still 1997 and charging people £30 for a pop single.... I havn't used a CD in almost a decade. Itunes making billions now, seems to me like they are making lots of money and people used to record off the radio and hand it to friends and copy casset tapes. I remember making mix tapes for friends when i was 10.

http://www.wired.com/listening_post/2008/03/apple-apparentl/ this is old as welll...

where is the problem ?
 
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