(April 13, 2015 at 9:05 pm)IATIA Wrote:(April 13, 2015 at 8:36 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Come on, you don't think the guys in charge of that stuff would be using piracy as justification for charging more no matter what we do?It does not help the situation. If they could sell twice as many there would be justification to lower prices. As it is, out of 10+ acquaintances, I am the only one that purchases DVDs. (The best part is that I am the only atheist in the group.) How many people do you know that purchase rather than steal? Now look at it from the supply aspect, for every one they sell, 10 are stolen? What is their motivation to lower the price?
That isn't a moral problem, it's a marketing problem. I fix prices in hopes of finding that sweet spot in which I make the most money. That price is usually somewhere in the middle. If I sell for too much there will be more piracy. It will be immoral, but there will be more. So, like every seller, I have to take that into account. The grocery store has to take the cost of shoplifting and employee theft into account too.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.