(01-01-2016, 04:42 PM)TheRealJustin Wrote: As for losing money, really you don't lose money from people pirating your stuff since it's a digital product, there's no physical inventory being stolen, so nothing is being lost. People that pirate stuff aren't people that are thinking if it wasn't available to pirate it for free they would buy it, that's not how they think at all. They think if it's free, I'll try it, if not, then fu*k it, so Shannon isn't losing one single penny from people pirating his stuff.
If he had a warehouse of physical CD's and people were taking them, then he would be losing money because he would be losing inventory, but this is just people who are not going to buy his subs anyways, getting their hands on a leaked copy, and then I as a paying customer have to suffer for it, and to me that's messed up and that's why my vote will always be on no APcode at all.
If this was my company I literally would have never even considered for one second to add an apcode. Piracy is just part of the game, and you don't lose anything from it because the people who pirate the stuff wouldn't be buying it anyways, it's nothing more than a leaked file that some random person gets their hands on, and that person was never going to spend a dollar on this company anyways, so it's seriously not a big deal.
If anything, it could help because a pirate could turn into a customer, but programming them to become one isn't right especially when people paying for the subs have to suffer along with the pirates.
Shannon already said he can't make an apcode that will only affect pirates and not affect paying customers, so to me, I'll always be against the apcode no matter how you frame it.
Shannon literally doesn't lose one single dollar from pirates, but he does gain from them if he programs them to start buying his stuff, so it's win for him, and lose for everybody else, pirates and customers.
And this is exactly why Shannon leaves the 5G programs working fully for pirates.You are right man, with subliminals it is a more special case because piraters are actually sceptics, who when try the subliminals and see that they work, become customers.
They come on here, find about Shannon and the hard work he puts into the subliminals, get to respect his work and become customers.
