01-02-2016, 05:18 AM
(01-01-2016, 07:02 PM)TheRealJustin Wrote: Yea but usually people who pirate stuff have no intention of ever buying it. They have the mind set 'I'll use it if I can find it for free, or else oh well.' There's no potential money from those people because no matter what they will never buy a program, (unless that program, programs them to start buying programs) but besides that there's nothing to lose. If I download Katy Perry's whole CD right now she didn't lose anything and she didn't lose any potential income either because there's no chance I would ever buy her CD (unless I did download it and it programmed me to buy it).
I must disagree at this point, because I pirated a lot of stuff in my past, especially movies and games, and if there was a product I really liked I purchased it later. But I know also people who pirated a lot and bought nothing. This is the reason I am still for some kind of AP. And if I understood it right paying customers would be still much less affected by the code. So some sort of light weight AP should be ok. And if I had the choice between using a really small amount of brain power to process the AP statement and Shannon raising the prices I would choose the first one.
