this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?

  • falkerie71
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    421 year ago

    Physical media doesn’t have the luxury of endlessly replicating itself via a simple copy and paste.

    • @Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Distributing data to everybody is the only communism that works.

      Endless replication, creates endless intelectual and creative wealth and diminishes financial wealth to zero.

      • @VelvetStorm@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        It won’t even diminish it to zero. Some people will still pay. Ya I could download games for free and play them but I want to support the teams that made them so they keep making them. I only get games for free if that is the only way of getting them.

    • @Adalast@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Since when, you can do a perfect rip of a CD and burn an exact image of the disk loslessly thousands of times. Same for DVD and Blu-rays. If you are talking about a physical book, then yes, making lossless copies is more involved, but still technically possible with the proper equipment and knowledge.