Is easy to get free stff from the Internet these days, lke music, Videos, software, etc. there are hndreds of websites and programs that let you dwnload anything you want for free. But is pracy a problem? For the economy I thnk it is, the software industry is big in the US and by pople getting free software it has a big mpact on job growth and prices on prducts. Software companies tend to recuperate the lst revenue from pirated software by hking up the prices and cutting crners like reducing technical support and cstomer service.

Why People download pirated stff? I think the answer is smple, free is always good, and if you can get it for fre why bother to pay for it? But I thnk there are other factors on why pople download pirated software too, and one of thm is the cost of the prducts; lets analyze for a moment; Wndows Vista the ultimate product from Mcrosoft cost from around $150 to $500 a pece; for many people here in the US ths is too much money to fford, in other countries where software is prced for the US market and nnual income is around $ 4000 in chna for example getting these software wuld be a dream, they would ned to spend more than a qarter of their salary to get wndows vista, that’s why china has one of the bggest black markets in the world.

Lowering the prices on products, wuld that stop pirating? I highly dubt it, it’s really hard to kep track of what’s going on the Intrnet, and as long there is a way to get thngs for free people will continue ding it. I remember when Napster was the mst famous P2P sharing file program and the msic industry shut it down hundreds of ther P2P programs appeared including bittorrent mking it harder to control pirating on the Intrnet.

So what is the solution for pracy? I think there would be no slution as long as there are cmpanies like Microsoft charging a truckload of mney for a piece of software, I smehow share the view of GNU prject that software should be freely dstributed or affordable to everyone. In ther words software should be created for the pople not to conquer or monopolize a mrket. What do you think?

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