Comments on: Software Piracy Costs Exceeds 50 Billion http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86211/software-piracy-costs-exceeds-50-billion/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:00:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86211/software-piracy-costs-exceeds-50-billion/#comment-190406 Joe Thu, 14 May 2009 20:02:55 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=86211#comment-190406 $53 billion in pirated software = $53 billion in losses. HA! As if everybody running pirated proprietary software could and would pay full price if their only choices were paying for proprietary software or using an open source alternative for free. I sent a hacked version of Vista to a parallel universe. It will shortly be installed on 5 billion PCs. If I'm calculating losses correctly, Microsoft should be out of business by the end of the week. $53 billion in pirated software = $53 billion in losses. HA! As if everybody running pirated proprietary software could and would pay full price if their only choices were paying for proprietary software or using an open source alternative for free.

I sent a hacked version of Vista to a parallel universe. It will shortly be installed on 5 billion PCs. If I’m calculating losses correctly, Microsoft should be out of business by the end of the week.

]]> By: mountain_rage http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86211/software-piracy-costs-exceeds-50-billion/#comment-190327 mountain_rage Wed, 13 May 2009 19:48:45 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=86211#comment-190327 Without piracy you would simply have an increase in opensource software usage. There is very little the average consumer can't do on a Linux machine than they can on a Windows machine. The one exception being gaming. Without piracy you would simply have an increase in opensource software usage. There is very little the average consumer can’t do on a Linux machine than they can on a Windows machine. The one exception being gaming.

]]> By: Carl http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86211/software-piracy-costs-exceeds-50-billion/#comment-190316 Carl Wed, 13 May 2009 17:36:32 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=86211#comment-190316 You want to reduce piracy, lower the price of software. Why is piracy so rampant in 3rd world? No one can afford legit software. If you can buy MSOffice for $5 equiv, why buy at full price? For example, reduce MSOffice to $20 for student/home edition, and they would probably buy it legally to have the tech support. Or lower Vista (for example) to $40 for full version of Home Premier, and I bet their increased sales would offset the price drop. And before you bash Vista, if a game you want but couldn't afford was $10 instead of $50, would you still pirate it? You want to reduce piracy, lower the price of software. Why is piracy so rampant in 3rd world? No one can afford legit software. If you can buy MSOffice for $5 equiv, why buy at full price? For example, reduce MSOffice to $20 for student/home edition, and they would probably buy it legally to have the tech support. Or lower Vista (for example) to $40 for full version of Home Premier, and I bet their increased sales would offset the price drop. And before you bash Vista, if a game you want but couldn’t afford was $10 instead of $50, would you still pirate it?

]]> By: bob http://www.zeropaid.com/news/86211/software-piracy-costs-exceeds-50-billion/#comment-190309 bob Wed, 13 May 2009 16:01:21 +0000 http://www.zeropaid.com/?p=86211#comment-190309 You cant have losses on something not physically lost. Plus this is a speculation, you cannot possibly figure this out with out any physical evidence, which is impossible with anything digital. You cant have losses on something not physically lost. Plus this is a speculation, you cannot possibly figure this out with out any physical evidence, which is impossible with anything digital.

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