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Hematic
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OK. Im curious to see how the rest of you feel on this subject. I "surmise" from most of the posts here that not quite "all" of you, got all your software through Best Buy So i wanted to know how everyone feels about piracy.
Lets split it up.
1)Movies and Music
2)Software
3)Books and all sorts of assorted crap.
Personally as far as movies and music go, those industries run on such a high profit margin that they have as much of a hard time trying to justify their 1000% profit as i do trying to find their files in good quality. It cant cost a music label more than a dollar to make a cd. And they sell them for $17-$20?? Large corporations get by on a 2 to 5 percent profit margin,IE walmart. What makes these people think they can charge that much?
Software is a different story though, since theoretically you could Write your OWN software, really its hard to justify stealing it from companies. I am of course by no means saying all of my software is legit, nor am i saying it isnt. Just curious on the opinions of the masses.
Lets split it up.
1)Movies and Music
2)Software
3)Books and all sorts of assorted crap.
Personally as far as movies and music go, those industries run on such a high profit margin that they have as much of a hard time trying to justify their 1000% profit as i do trying to find their files in good quality. It cant cost a music label more than a dollar to make a cd. And they sell them for $17-$20?? Large corporations get by on a 2 to 5 percent profit margin,IE walmart. What makes these people think they can charge that much?
Software is a different story though, since theoretically you could Write your OWN software, really its hard to justify stealing it from companies. I am of course by no means saying all of my software is legit, nor am i saying it isnt. Just curious on the opinions of the masses.