I will say first, that I do not approve of 'Pirating' items, even to the extent that people get annoyed with me over not accepting things.
The thing that annoys me it the figures given on the News etc. for the amount lost as if people would be able to buy the same number of items if only available at the full price. For example there was a News items about computer games in markets, at a time when the were £40 plus, in the market the pirate version was £5 and people were buying say 3 at a time. They seems to have calculated a loss to the business in that case of £120, but if they had that much money would they buy only 3 of the £5 ones?
Another annoyance, was the CD Wow thing where they charged an additional amount for CDs obtained outside the EEC. The business and band maybe from the UK, but they are happy to do the recording abroad, printing of the discs and covers in Southern Europe, producing the discs in Asia. They sell in these places at a lower rate (even the USA) but they do not like it if we buy from the best value place. They say as there is a cost of research and development, but why should the UK be the only place that pays for this. Even if it is a British band, if someone from overseas enjoys the music they should also pay their share of R & D.
I know some US states tried to charge Banks which had branches in the State, the worldwide profits to the States taxes. Perhaps the UK should charge UK companies to worldwide profits based on the price they would have charged for their goods in the UK. Perhaps they would do more of the production in the UK or reduce UK prices, OK it would not work. Ian
The thing that annoys me it the figures given on the News etc. for the amount lost as if people would be able to buy the same number of items if only available at the full price. For example there was a News items about computer games in markets, at a time when the were £40 plus, in the market the pirate version was £5 and people were buying say 3 at a time. They seems to have calculated a loss to the business in that case of £120, but if they had that much money would they buy only 3 of the £5 ones?
Another annoyance, was the CD Wow thing where they charged an additional amount for CDs obtained outside the EEC. The business and band maybe from the UK, but they are happy to do the recording abroad, printing of the discs and covers in Southern Europe, producing the discs in Asia. They sell in these places at a lower rate (even the USA) but they do not like it if we buy from the best value place. They say as there is a cost of research and development, but why should the UK be the only place that pays for this. Even if it is a British band, if someone from overseas enjoys the music they should also pay their share of R & D.
I know some US states tried to charge Banks which had branches in the State, the worldwide profits to the States taxes. Perhaps the UK should charge UK companies to worldwide profits based on the price they would have charged for their goods in the UK. Perhaps they would do more of the production in the UK or reduce UK prices, OK it would not work. Ian
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