@Christian Marcussen said:
[...] I would dare say that the amount of money VSL looses on piracy is very limited. Thats not saying that there arent pirated versions out there, or that those using them are doing something legally and morally wrong - but from an econmic standpoint the loss is almost non-existant
I would say that for each legit version of VSL-products thera are at least four pirated copies, as a rough estimation. (This doesn't mean that every user gives away his his stuff four times, it's just to give you an relation.) When we now calculate that only 25% percent of the pirates do _real_ work with their stolen copies, you understand that piracy actually _halves_ our potential income, making our products more expensive in return.
... and I think this estimation is very conservative, BTW.
Is this what you would really call "economically non-existant" ...? [8o|]
And while we're at it: As the project leader for our MIR-developement I can assure you that this great innovation won't see the market before the copy-protection is as good as it can get, nowadays - for exactly the reason explained above. So: piracy not only costs _ your_ money, but hinders fast development of new products on the top of it.
/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library