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>> No.6822269

Talk with numbers. How much $ are we talking about?

>> No.6822270

Shows just how big a threat digital piracy really is. Or should I say digital terrorism!

>> No.6822272

well...germany lost world war one...im not to sure what your picture is implying

>> No.6822276

/jp/ – Doesn't understand inflation

>> No.6822281

>>6822270
Digital piracy costs the world more than 70 billion dollars every year. That's as much as all natural disasters combined cost the world in the same period of time.

>> No.6822282

>>6822276
/jp/ can't read that it has been adjusted for inflation

>> No.6822286

That's strange because I haven't seen anything even worth pirating coming from the USA since a few years.

>> No.6822289

>>6822282
Inflating German GDP% Inflation by US CPI figures.

Nice one. You're still fucking morons.

>> No.6822291

Digital piracy raped my sister

>> No.6822292
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>paying for software

>> No.6822293

And they both lost.

>> No.6822294

>>6822289
Sorry you lost the war. My condolences.

>> No.6822297

Also, inflation doesn't occur "in rounds", it is a continuous social process.

IT IS IN DAS KAPITAL PEOPLE

>> No.6822301

>>6822297
Pretty sure it occurs in rounds when the committee has their meeting.

>> No.6822300

>>6822294
The international bourgeoisie won.

The international proletariat lost.

But one day we will win.

>> No.6822303

>>6822301
………

Now you may be merely cretinous and be claiming that _significant_ inflation rises are caused by discrete political choice. But even there you'd be wrong.

>> No.6822315

>>6822303
Political? What, no. Well, I guess they vote on it though.

>> No.6822325

>>6822315
And how often does the international inflation committee meet? Quarterly?

>> No.6822329

>>6822325
Bi-yearly. Shouldn't you already know that?

>> No.6822347

>>6822329
Generally when I want a wank fantasy regarding economics, I think of the Hungarian Workers Councils.

>> No.6822358

>>6822281
That figure is bullshit. You think that if piracy were impossible then 70 billion more dollars would have been spent? I pirate stuff because it's free. If I had to pay $60 for a game and several hundred for an anime series I'd be in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.

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>> No.6822369

>>6822358
You misinterpreted that post, 70 billion dollars per annum is the damage dealt by digital piracy. I guess the amount of money spent on fighting it is much higher.

>> No.6822374 [DELETED] 

>>6822369

actually i did that cuz i saw an exploitable. i have no idea what this thread is about

>> No.6822378

>>6822369
Generally policing costs are much much much lower than the "damages" believed to be inflicted. This is because if your policing costs are higher than the damages, then you're losing two sets of money.

>> No.6822396

>>6822369
I don't think digital Piracy does much damage at all. Most people who download stuff wouldn't have payed for it in the first place. A free download made isn't a lost sale.

>> No.6822407

>>6822396
>Most people who download stuff wouldn't have payed for it in the first place.

If they wouldn't have paid for then why are they using the service?
This kind of logical fallacy means that in case there wouldn't be any other option than shelling money, you would've done without it, meaning there would be no desire on your part to use the service (which is in direct contrast with what pirates are doing).

>> No.6822414

>>6822369

I don't see how making a digital copy of something can cause any damage.

>> No.6822423

>>6822407
>claims other poster is using logical fallacy, proceeds to use logical fallacy
What.

>> No.6822431

>>6822407
Not always true, some people may be interested in having that whatever it is they want to download but not see it worth paying for.

>> No.6822434

And to an approximately equivalent effect, too.

>> No.6822435

>>6822414

Well, digital media does appear to overall hurt physical media.. look at how newspapers have gone so far downhill, because so many get their news online.

While it doesn't directly cause damage, it lulls people into not caring enough to buy albums or movies etc. People naturally take the path of least resistance (in this case the path of least money) and if you can save yourself a fortune getting things you really like or otherwise can't even find, you probably will.

Hence the latest thing in Japan with selling games and DVDs is to bundle in little things you can't download but you'll want anyway.. little figures and limited edition bonus stuff etc. For example I'm sure that the decision to bundle in those Kuroko and Misaka figma into those PSP games moved far, far more of said games than if the products would have been separated.

>> No.6822444

>>6822407
>insinuating that piracy will make someone lose their money
You copy something. Nothing was lost in the process.
People will buy something since the original is always better. For example case cover, reading from a real book instead of staring at the LCD, shitty video encoding instead of true lossless blue ray and etc.
You wouldn't buy a fake bootleg figures or download a car right?

>> No.6822449

>>6822407
It's not a logical fallacy at all.

Do I like to play free videogames? Yes.
Would I pay 50 euro for the majority of games I play? Hell no.

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>>6822444
Forgot my image.

>> No.6822456

>>6822451
copying_is_not_piracy.jpg

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>> No.6822524 [DELETED] 

Just like every lost sale doesn't equal a lost sale, it doesn't mean no sales are lost due to piracy. Instead of trying to make up excuses about it to justify your worthless existence, why not be utterly shameless about it? At least you won't be lying to yourselves.

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http://www.4chan.org/rules
>3. Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry"), grotesque ("guro"), or loli/shota pornography.
>Trolls
>off-topic

This thread is reportable. I have done so, and invite all sages and silent onlookers to do so as well.

>> No.6822532

Just like every download doesn't equal a lost sale, it doesn't mean no sales are lost due to piracy. Instead of trying to make up excuses about it to justify your worthless existence, why not be utterly shameless about it? At least you won't be lying to yourselves.

>> No.6822534

>>6822451
Actually piracy is when your rob people at sea.
Copying a video or game is not piracy.

>> No.6822559

Shiver me topsails ye landlubber.

>> No.6822614

>>6822534
People who rip off other people's work have been called pirates since at least 1603. Piracy as a fom of copyright infringement is a long established legal term in British law.

>> No.6822630

Who would've thought! That words could possibly evolve and gain new meaning over time... what an amazing age we live in!

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