Philosophical Quandry: Piracy

[tesco samoa]

PVK theoretical sales

That is what I feel as well....

Take Bell Canada and this concept of the theroretical sale

Now 100000 people subscrible to Dish network in the states.

They do not wish to Subscribe to Bell Sat. Tv.

Why because they wish to watch American TV.

According to Bell Canada these people are breaking the law and costing Bell Canada billions of dollars. Why theroretical sale.

Music and games are the same

Its these theroretical sales that their after. Like all of asudden people will buy the stuff if they cannot copy it. I do not think so. The only difference is that they would not have a crack / copy. That is it.
Example
I have a copy of the song 'boys are back in town'.

But I was never ever going to buy a thin lizzy cd.

Did they lose money from me. No. I was never ever going to spend money on that item.

Did they lose theroretical money on me. Yes. Depending on the year they peg me at it could be up to 9 dollars.

P.S. if i was to buy it i would by it used...

If i could not get this song then i would tape it off the radio or just listen to it when it comes on the radio. ( As I have a ok system the sound quality is the same as a 128k mp3 file as far as my ears can tell)
Here as well they lost a theroretical sale.

thanks pvk...

Personally i perfer open source software anyways....