amoiseyev
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| Re: Would It Really Do Any Good??? said by cprgolds:
small fraction of the buyers and SONY would probably never feel the impact.
I think that Sony will see the impact of their own actions: "protected CDs" will cause decrease in sales ( and increase in piracy ) for the few obvious reasons:
1. Computer users will not buy "protected CDs" because they are useless for them;
2. Some (small amount, but few) people will just boycott these CDs;
3. Some "advanced users" will buy the CD, make a copy for themselves and for sharing and return "corrupted cd" back to the store and get full refund;
4. Real pirates (who made unlicensed copies by thousands in Bulgaria and China) will get a virtually "competition-free" market, where nobody legally offer "real CD" with the same content;
5. A lot of customers who care about their money more than about copyright laws will prefer to buy pirated CD, copy it or download the music instead of buying perfectly legal disk that will not play in the car audio or portable cd-player.
I think with all these 5 Sony will have to admit than sales of these protected CDs are noticeable less than they would be without protection.
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Alex
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