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Originally Posted by ianch99
What is the way of stopping illegal downloads? If people can download the content illegally for free, would they pay even if the pricing models are revamped?
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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
If I could download the content at a reasonable price and it's available at the same time globally then yes absolutely I would pay
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Some would pay, but I suspect a lot wouldn't.
I remember once working in Blockbuster. We had a bunch of tapes we needed to get rid of, but we needed to enter the fact on the system that we had got rid of them (don't ask me why the manager could not have just marked them as disposed on the inventory). As such, we put a couple of tables out in the store with these free tapes, with the necessary notices that we still needed to scan them.
A lot of them were stolen.
Also, when I worked in a local hospital canteen, at the end of every day, we sold off any unsold sandwiches for a fraction of their marked price (a few pence). IIRC, more stuff was nicked from that shelf than from anywhere else..
Finally, when I worked in the same hospital (actually doing the accounts for the catering department), we discovered a massive discrepancy between the amount of food several wards were ordering and the amount of patients registered in those wards. Basically, we were allocated so much money per day, per patient (only a couple of pounds a day). All food and drink that patient was given came out of that allocation. Several wards were running out of food regularly. When we investigated, we found that the staff (and specifically several nurses), rather than come down to the heavily subsidised canteen, were eating the food allocated to the patients.
So yes, even if stuff is available for a reasonable price (and the food in that canteen was pretty good quality and cost a *lot* less than it would have outside), there *are* people who will steal it.
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Originally Posted by Sirius
Proved yet again that take downs don't work. The websites providing links can move faster than any of the take downs.
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Actually, they don't. Take downs are not a permanent solution (and I don't think anyone who knows anything about piracy or security would seriously suggest they are), but they are a way of controlling piracy.
I think they suffer from the same thing that a lot of security systems suffer from. The fact that not only is it almost impossible to prevent other sites or methods being found, but that the bad guys can move quicker than the good guys.
An off line example of this.
A friend of mine used to work in the DSS Security department. It was their remit to ensure that people did not fraudulently claim things to which they were not entitled, and also ensure that Giros were not forged.
I remember talking to my friend once and he actually said that any change they could make to the Giro would be made to the forgeries 6 to 8 weeks after (including stuff like holograms), so I asked him why the DSS invested so much in changing the design all the time. His answer? The amount saved while the forgers where unable to forge the new design was usually far greater than the amount spent on the new design..
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