There has been more than one study showing that people who pirates content are ususally the group that spend most on content.

There has been more than one study showing that people who pirates content are ususally the group that spend most on content. This is for the simple reason that people that pirates stuff are the one that are interested enough for the content. So study show that people that use piracy are also the same people that buy the legal content. Why ? For many reasons, it might be easier to pirate than getting it in legal ways, it might not be available legally yet, or it might, obviosuly, cost more than they are willing to spend. There are people that only pirate stuff and don't pay for anything, sure there are, but most pirates are just interested people that for one reason or the other can't get the same thing legally (money is only one of the reasons). And that also is one of my biggest problem with the argument against piracy. They treat each pirated copy of something like a missed sale, and that's just stupid. If my budget for movies is 100$, i'll spend that 100$. After that, if I want more content, my option are pirate the other stuff or simply not consuming it. Not increasing my budget. I don't have one research to show you, because there has been more than one, so I'll leave you this link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pirates+spend+more

Posted by Kesty on Apr 28, 2015, 12:08 PM

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