65 comments on The 88,000,000,000 barrel debt
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It's true, you can buy Photoshop in Thailand for $10.
However, Adobe is still doing quite well. I grew up in LA and have friends working for the studios, and one has been so busy, he hoped the show he was working on would fail-- no such luck, he is working 12-18 hours a day, and the ratings going up.
So, while intellectual property (my wife is an illustrator/artist, so I'm familiar with the issues) has been a huge concern, revenues are still being generated in the BAU model.
But agreed, the ag and finance people alway come first.
This is geting off topic but:
In some respects, the software industry reaps a hidden benefit by this pirate distribution network. By turning a blind eye to the lone individual who learns on a pirate copy, it expands the pool of competent users which in turn creates a powerful reason for commerical users to buy and implement the platform in their firms.
Software publishers could lock up programs if they really wanted too, but they know that they would lose a lot of market share if they did. Music and movies are basically non-productive indulgences anyway that now take on epic proportions of social and cultural energy. If those industriez closed down or downscaled because of copy pirates and it creates new opportunites for local live artists to entertain us then that has to be a good thing.
Relating this back to the topic at hand, the entertainment industry is one of the few exports that America has left but you can only sing for your supper for so long.