Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
> On 2008-09-07 12:20:47 -0400, Slobodan Blazeski
>
gmail.com> said:
>>> And keep the ethics outside of the picture, humans are just
>> humans, you can't change us, why paying for something they could get
>> for free. The law of the jungle.
>
> This is simply false. Most people will in fact *not* simply take
> something they know is not theirs without paying for it.
Why do I find that hard to believe?
> This explains
> the "mystery" of the success of the iTunes store. After all, the
> overwhelming majority of Apple's paid music downloads could be had for
> free.
Yes some people pay for some music sometimes, yesterday I bought a CD
(I'm little oldfashioned) with a *songs* that are all in the youtube
for free, quality sometimes sucks but many are good enough for me.Why
did I bought it? I don't know probably because I've become a fan of
Isaac Albeniz Asturias and the piece was in it.
So here's my humble opinion. Get use to free riders, there will
always be people who will support what they found close to their
harts. If it wasn't for youtube I would never buy classic guitar
pieces. Never. Now I'm starting to make a collection of them, some
free, some youtubed, some bought.
>
> Again, what is human nature is the various contorted rationalizations
> of cheap people who attempt to justify their unwillingness to part with
> money as if being cheapskates were some sort of natural law.
>
> This isn't in any way confined to electonic downloads. There are many
> economic contexts in which people could get away with cheating/not
> paying but routinely do not cheat.
Crysis got something like 10:1 with torrented : payed for. Hmm..
> This is because people know that if
> everyone routinely cheated the whole economic fabric of society would
> be torn to shreds.
Of course. But people want free rides too. Wasn't Tony Blair cought
avoiding to pay the train fare? The former prime minister of the old
established democracy. Come on. Society imposed the peopel to pay
their rides, taxes, etc etc. Because most of the people are thinking :
city services won't suffer very much if I don't pay 200 bucks in
taxes.
> Economies, like the societies that underly them, run
> on trust.
They run on interests. If we could live better in the forest buy
ourselves we'll gonna send the socity to hell and vote with out feets.
bobi
