General What would reduce piracy?

Convenience.

Many, many studies have shown that if there is a way to access it that is as easy as piracy, people will buy it instead.

Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, etc are HUGE examples of this.

 

Both convenience and price.

For example, the entire three-season original Star Trek series, with some 20 Blue ray discs, each with 4 episodes & several extras on each disc, only cost me some 75 US$ with s&h to Europe. I didn't need to do anything than just grab them with MakeMKV and HB to reduce their size for iPad playback - this all only takes about 2-3 minutes/disc. No need to waste time on Torrent sites or Usenet looking for missing archives (and to wait for the entire thing to download, of course), if I can find the original Blu-ray discs at all.

I'd much rather shell out $75 than waste a LOT of time tracking down all the episodes one-by-one, struggle with the missing RAR's, CRC errors etc. My time is much more expensive.

 

I think lower prices and higher incomes play a big role.

 

Yup, 4*50 minutes at very high quality - some 8.5 GB/50 minutes.

 

Public understanding that piracy is stealing.

 

For the first time in years music and movie piracy is down. Quite dramatically.

Streaming services are responsible for this.

Therefore it's clear that 'owning' something outright is less important to those that traditionally pirated, than simply having continued easy access to it.

Choose what you want, pay a flat fee and if you don't like it remove it from your library / collection and add something else instead.

That simple balance of convenience and a flat fee is the solution for most folks.

For those that remain, wanting and seemingly expecting or having a right to something for nothing despite any ramifications or repercussions will always be a pull to pirate ....

 

That's the same thing guy.

 

People who pirate always know that it was stealing .... They simply didn't care because the physical repercussions of the act are so remote as opposed to going into a shop and physically stealing an item.

 

Giving you samplers will do it.

Amazon gives you 20 second audio samplers, is cool.

 

I think lower prices would be number 1 solution.
But anyways I thought you should check this picture:

http://tightmixblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/piracy-not-theft-460x328.jpg

 

For me is the ability to try before buying. If I buy an app I cannot try it to see if it's worth

 

Apple needs to adopt Google's app return policy. That is a good way to start. Unfortunately any system with file system write access is infinitely susceptible to piracy.

 

Meh even without a jailbreak its possible to jailbreak

 

Most people are seemingly unaware that it's very simple to return apps and get a refund through iTunes and can be done after the 15 minutes that Google allow.

Simply go into your iTunes account, choose purchase history and then hit the report purchase to the ones you want to return.

A simple "app is not what I was expecting and I have sought alternative" as reason for report/return and Apple will invariably refund your purchase. This can be done days after buying something, not just within a 15 minute window too.

 

Pay and try, if it's not what you expected return it. (See above)

It's the same process as buying anything physically in a shop.

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It's stealing...


It's stealing the intellectual property of the copyright holder. YOU are not the copyright holder. Unauthorised duplication is theft of the copyright. You may have not had your item stolen, but the book publisher / writer has had their work stolen.

 

Yes it is stealing. Your fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

A person duplicating a book or song is breaking the owner (publisher / artists) copyright and that illegal copy means that the person with the copy will not purchase the item thereby stealing a potential sale from the copyright holder. It therefore steals the compensation for that copyright holders work.

 

Good to know. I think that Google's implementation is much more transparent though. You don't have to look anywhere for a refund, the button is simply there.

 

Yep apple need to make the process much more transparent and in doing so would serve customers better. Like I say most folks are unaware they can return apps they have purchased which doesn't serve the customer well.

 

Ya I think this leads to people using the "I pirate to try things out" excuse.

 

What would reduce piracy?

Funny as if no one here has downloaded a song or watched a movie free online or anything else