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Originally Posted by kRAyZZed
[snip] its ppl like you who are making the prices of games, dvds and music cd's so high as the developers have to have a higher profit margin to make up for all those ppl illegally acquiring their intellectual property
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Bull, it's one simple word making the prices so high - GREED
programmers don't get paid per copy sold, the movies make back their money in the box office, and DVD / CD production and marketing is measured in the realm of PENNIES!
IF this were not the case then why are we, the brittish public paying in pounds what the americans are paying in dollars?
the publishing industry could sell the DVDs at £5 each and CD albums at £2 each but they won't because of greed.
I for one would be more than happy to buy my DVDs at the lower price, but I am loathe to pay more for a medium which costs less than a V?HS tape to produce and yet costs more from most major retailers.
Equalise the pricing globally and then start marketing the films at a price people are willing to pay and you have a cure for piracy.
Same goes for music and games.
Who are the games marketers targetting with an Xbox game? kids mainly, with adults as well.... yet they charge up to £50 per game??? how many kids have £50 available to buy games? of COURSE they are going to get copies as it's the only way they can play the things.
it's the companies who perpetuate piracy, not the users.
I build computers, I make £50 on a machine build, yet I would rather sell 10 machines with £50 markup than 2 machines at £200 markup.
the companies want to sell their 50 machines with £200 markup... it's greed and they are pricing themselves out of the realm of battling piracy.