My little brother almost bought an album from iTunes the other day because it was too much trouble to find a pirated version. Why on earth hasn’t the music industry shifted their marketing to how it is more convienent to buy authentic than the “we will sue you for every dime if you don’t”approach
(via danielpatricio)
Bankrupting potential customers would be universally panned as moronic if it was a pricing strategy.
Why is it an appropriate response to piracy?
(via attentionindustry) (via mikehudack)
whit adds:
This is a perfect example of the now vs. free issue. One of the reasons that I largely buy mp3s, rather than pirating, is that I consider that eight or nine bucks a very reasonable price to pay in return for not having to spend half an hour trying to find a decent quality torrent. (There are other issues, of course, but that’s a meaningful factor.)
