> — this case actually lead me to think that either the company did a really bad job advertising his product, or the pirates were not the targetted audience, both cases are just a lucky shot for the company, but I would not say it is a positive thing, the first case would reveal a weakness that they will not see in their marketing model.
> Aphrodite I *don't care about marketing, I care about what the product actually is. That and combined with the fact that most anime doesn't reach American audiences, I often have to rely on pirated content. It's a straight up fact. Nothing their marketing department can fix.
This has little more to do with luck than just circumstance, of which marketing is all about --> getting the right words to the right people at the right time.
In the case of the content that I have pirated, one could consider the people who provide said pirated content to actually be marketing the product for said company.
Overall, I would argue that pirating is neither good nor bad, and the concept of downloading bits and bytes that one has limited access to to be stealing depending solely on who asks the question and who answers.
Yes, the problem being when the middleware makes money from it, it has no authorisation to do so, when he does not make any money, since you were not the initial target, I would say "who actually cares" (my comment about marketing was for the intended target), I will never actually say to someone "you should not have downloaded it, you are a really really naughty boy, and I will whip you", I think the best would be that everyone could see any link possible of the internet with no issues at all legally wise or anything like that, but maybe I am being too utopist.
tulamide some people actually wants to share their goods and not have a reward for it, I am kind of ashamed to think I will be paid when I will work at a full time job, just for my knowledge and time. And I have kind of a bad feeling when I think about not paying a content that I could pay for, and I do not think I am kind of an unique holy representant of honor, like I am the only one thinking like that, pretty sure others also think like that, and I do not believe in life after death so I do not have this kind of motivation either, so this "wanting it freely" is not an as accurate description as it may sounds at first (but again, some people are like that)
Also why nobody mentionned the fact some people have to download a pirate copy to make it work sometimes? (Drm not working correctly makes us sad).