tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post4063904289649091318..comments2024-03-29T05:13:47.133+00:00Comments on The Speculative Scotsman: You Tell Me | Embracing PiracyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713791516631476930noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-51088337210061535302012-09-19T16:18:54.287+01:002012-09-19T16:18:54.287+01:00Here's a fact - people acquire books and art a...Here's a fact - people acquire books and art and games and music and whatever it may be in a manner of different ways. Most of the time, we're introduced to books (I'm going to shorten the list for the sake of this comment section) through other people. My favorite authors? Almost all of them were introduced to me through some form of lending, whether from a library, a school, or a friend. I didn't pay for the book. But then I liked it, and I decided I wanted to buy the book (and the author's others). I wanted to support the author.<br /><br />Piracy is a mass-media form of this sharing. This makes it scarier for publishers, but that shouldn't be the case. At the end of the day, people <i>want</i> to support artists and creators and authors that they like. People who upload books or music online are not doing so for their own benefit. They are doing so for the benefit of potential readers and fans worldwide. The method by which they are going about is illegal because of its scope, but on a fundamental level, I don't think any of us believe sharing a beloved book is necessarily wrong.<br /><br />What I'm trying to say... that idea that pirates aren't paying, that they're just cruelly stealing money from the noble creators? False. Pirates buy. They just don't necessarily buy <i>before</i> they consume. Publishers shouldn't encourage piracy, exactly, but they <i>should</i> encourage free eBook downloads. This is what gets people reading your book. Plowing on with these outmoded notions are silly at best, and longterm it's just going to be harmful.Meytal Radzinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-43669067685500262422012-09-19T08:37:51.046+01:002012-09-19T08:37:51.046+01:00Well I'm with yah I don't like those yaarn...Well I'm with yah I don't like those yaarn pirates making a profit for themselves .. giving the fact that most of the things that were pirated this days are coming in from digital mediums like games and softwares ... I don't think books would be on top 3 I like comic books and there are tons of comic <a href="http://blogging-profits-unleashed.com/" rel="nofollow">book to read</a> to read ... we needed to stop the yarn piratesArchaznablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13435608748614010612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-67882229238083261162012-09-17T18:37:19.615+01:002012-09-17T18:37:19.615+01:00Two things that need to be mentioned everytime the...Two things that need to be mentioned everytime there's pirate talk (from a gamers perspective, don't know too much about book piracy)<br />1. Publishers never actually post any kind of numbers when talking about piracy (Unless it's something like Ubisofts "95%")<br />2. More or less every study done on the subject shows pirates are (by far) the biggest spenders online. Even the study HADOPI did, showed that and that's the French governments anti-piracy agency we're talking about.<br /><br />It's ridiculous that we're now almost in 2013, and Valve still seems to be the only company that understands that the way to fight piracy is to offer a better service for paying customers (which is the exact opposite what everyother big publisher is doing).Severiannoreply@blogger.com