Wow, if we cut software piracy by 10% there'd be 500,000 new jobs and other good things. Sounds deadly, but accidentally they forgot, among other things, that money not spent on software, is spent on other things! Who are they hiring to do these studies? Is it chimpanzees, or are they telling economics graduates to forget what they know and contrive a report so they can back-hand governments with promises of tax revenue, when in fact, their suggestions would more than likely damage the worldwide economy, and reduce local jobs (IT jobs are on average more expensive than grocery workers, surprise) . . . That's the study I'm interested in.
10% software piracy decrease = 500K new jobs/US$142B injected into economy??? That's too little in my opinion!
Wow, that's not a lot of jobs to make. Literally millions of Americans have gone bankrupt or lost a job and IT is growing.
BSA's suggestions would damage the economy if it was implemented before, because people were losing jobs and $142B will go to be part of thousands of shopping times, where all that money will deplete quickly because "there was a lot of money." (This is my theory. I don't care if I'm proven wrong because I needed something to think of.)
Why is it their legacy to make shit up and deceive? In my mind this begs the question, does anybody actually know that 'piracy' is wrong or even damaging? Why can't they legitimately show that it is damaging? They're spending enough money to make up lies about it.
I wonder why, but my guess is that they want to inform people that piracy is a malevolent practice when it is actually meant to be teasing software companies and is practiced by computer technicians. But we should thank Microsoft users running pirated software, because Microsoft is looking for money and halving their revenue is part of visitors' guesses of our master plan (we don't have one yet, though).
My conclusion is that software piracy is good for the economy, because if it went away associations such as BSA would have no more shit to make up, and they would actually die of starvation because they don't realise that people who lose their job, can actually find another one. Their closed-mindedness is really affecting me, but at least they're getting paid for it.
People who lose jobs could find another one? That's a big issue. In the recession, when a job was lost, you likely couldn't find another one because of companies losing positions and restoring them, leaving out the others in the blue, which leads to bankruptcy. Fortunately, I'm with you on the part that the BSA is a wacky organization full of skeptical people.
Now that the recession's gone, people can safely look for new jobs. What a wacky world of wonders.
Now that the recession's gone, it's also time to add some flavour to excellent software products with GPLv3, a better way to allow your customers to pirate software without getting arrested by local authorities.
EDIT: We need to tell Microsoft that software IS math. (In other words, software should NOT be patented like math.)
Piracy is a good thing. It brings opportunities for:
- The people. They don't have to pay a lot on stupid software.
- Pirates. They're doing us a favour by cutting Microsoft's revenue.
- Companies. They can purchase a copy of software and install it on every PC with that one copy.
- The poor. Everyone in a developing country can have a cheap computer and get a cheap, pirated copy.
Microsoft can't even understand the advantages of piracy, so they make up WGA to tell average consumers that a non-pirated copy of Windows opens up a world of exclusive download-from-the-web applications that don't do much.
Software companies earn more money from non-pirated software. We can tell them that money is not important by cutting their revenue with piracy.
My mother brings pirated movies from her local video store for like $2 each. She claims that buying original films on DVD drain the budget, and she is correct.
