Why you have to pay: all on the shelves

    The eternal holivars that “why I don’t pay for the content”, “why I pay for the content”, “they inflate the price”, “create poor quality films” often lead to comparisons that are incomparable, so I want to show and sort them out.

    Preamble



    "Lawyers" and "violators of the law" will always be in any field, no matter how we call them, fight or support.
    I will try not to draw analogies, but give examples from all sides.
    Also, violators of copyright and / or license agreement in the article I will call pirates, and their actions - piracy. This is so as not to incite holivars under article 227 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.



    Movies and music



    Imagine that you are a director. Of course, I do not fully understand this topic and can make mistakes, but:
    - you create a script;
    - type a team;
    - shoot and move between film sets like your team;
    - modify the video on the computer;

    After that, you calculate the total amount spent on the film. It is logical that you would like to get a little profit for this, too, so you make extra cost to it (as they say - from the ceiling) and get the amount for which you are ready to sell your creation, into which you “drove” a lot of money, time and forces. You give your film to the distributor, who also adds value so that he can pay for the work of his employees and get some profit for himself. The cost of the film is increasing.

    1. People buy, watch, evaluate, advise to watch / not watch - the director, depending on the profit, understands that he is an asshole a bad director or vice versa, and also whether the topic is interesting or not.
    2. People do not download licenses thanks to the pirates, and, partially enriching the pirates in terms of the material side (money) or the non-material side (thanks for the act and increasing its self-esteem and / or fame). You, as a director, do not understand the interest of the audience, do not cover the costs and, depending on the situation, forget about this topic or continue to “procrastinate” it further.


    In the first version: everyone is happy. If the director realized that the topic is not interesting, he will not shoot the continuation of this film or raise this topic in his career. If the theme of the film is like, and the director thanks to the first film received money for a new film - he removes the sequel.

    The second option:
    • the director did not understand public opinion and bends an interesting topic;
    • the director did not understand public opinion and does not bend a bad topic.


    From time to time, “teasers” appear in the films, which highlight the interest of the film. Of course, often only the most interesting and spectacular moments are laid out there, but if you decided to go to the film, no one forced you. Yes, they lured you, tried to interest you. And they did it. Blaming other people's weaknesses is “worthy”.

    Saying that “the film is bad, I wasted my money” is easy. But why do you blame other people for this, if you yourself did an act by going to this film.

    You downloaded a movie from the Internet, watched it arranged for you / did not suit you. But you took advantage of the results of an alien, albeit poor-quality, work, without paying anything for it. Why do you think that you are right and shit cannot be paid for ?? But why, even not knowing about the quality of someone else's work, do you use it? Since they have taken advantage, then pay for it. Your subjective opinion about quality is worthy of respect, but so that you can express it, then take full advantage of the service ...

    Programs



    In principle, programs can also be said, only a person estimates the cost of time spent, coffee and liver, as well as the value of his intellectual work.
    If you are not satisfied with the cost of the software - this is not a reason to engage in its piracy. Saying that “I would have made such a program much cheaper and better”, why didn’t you do it instead of piracy?
    Many programs provide Trial or limited versions - evaluate the quality of the product.
    If you are not satisfied with the quality of the product, then create your own. Do not know how? But, despite this, you evaluate the hour of another person’s work according to your subjective concepts without a person’s margin and say that this is an excuse for piracy.
    Example: my hour at one job costs ~ 170 rubles, and at the second ~ 900 rubles. Each work I devote a certain amount of time, strength and mental abilities (we all know how the body gets tired of 8 hours of "thinking"). Total, I will evaluate my hour of work on the program as 900 rubles, plus the idea of ​​the program, implementation of algorithms, time and money spent on training. Why should I then evaluate my work for 170 rubles per hour, or even less. According to some people, I generally have to do it for free.
    Are you not comfortable with my product? Create your own. There is no opportunity / strength / knowledge or just laziness - these are your problems. Pay for the product. By piracy, you are violating my rights. Are you not comfortable with the terms of the agreement? So do not use.

    Epilogue



    All this is a subjective opinion and, at some point, I could make mistakes, but I hope I conveyed the essence. You can find fault with words - I will not comment on such issues, since such a topic is redundant and not interesting.

    Taking someone else's is not good. Can't do it yourself? Take advantage of what is and observe the conditions that are indicated in the license agreement. Being engaged in piracy, you steal my / someone else's money - you had to pay for a copy, and you appropriate money for yourself.
    Is the program bad? You made this choice yourself. The license agreement is also a contract. And it is two-way. And if the manufacturer has not fulfilled or has fulfilled the terms of the agreement poorly, then under the contract you have the right to demand money back (I don’t know the whole scheme exactly - I’m not a lawyer, correct, if it’s not right, however, money was often returned to me for low-quality software).

    Wish you success!

    UDP : a good, in my opinion, comment from aleks_pingvin , which reveals the essence of the Russian user.

    UDP 2: I do not occupy either side of the conflict. I perfectly understand that many points of how to download from the Internet and watch a movie are much easier than going somewhere, choosing and waiting ... But to say that it is right and good is stupid.

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