Comment Re:Uh yeah. (Score 1) 619
ok, you're partially right but there's one point that you have say ADDITIONALLY (just adapting your way of writing; tip: shout a little less)
Not justifying their actions, just saying this line of thinking is completely flawed. Piracy does not COST companies anything, at most it eliminates POTENTIAL profits, not ACTUAL profits.
Now think about what happens if the 'hack' gets more and more popular. Assuming that a certain percentage of DirecTV's customers have got something like a "criminal tendency", let it be 5% for example, more and more of those customers will get to known about the other way of receiving the whole program and i bet there is a bunch of them who'll say "Why should i pay $40/month when I can buy that magic-smartcard from my neighbour for one-time $50-$400" (depends on the relationship between the customer and his 'criminal' partner).
I don't see DirecTV doing anything wrong. They want to sell a service to a customer and so they're pretty right when they want to charge everybody who uses the service. That's economics.
Not justifying their actions, just saying this line of thinking is completely flawed. Piracy does not COST companies anything, at most it eliminates POTENTIAL profits, not ACTUAL profits.
Now think about what happens if the 'hack' gets more and more popular. Assuming that a certain percentage of DirecTV's customers have got something like a "criminal tendency", let it be 5% for example, more and more of those customers will get to known about the other way of receiving the whole program and i bet there is a bunch of them who'll say "Why should i pay $40/month when I can buy that magic-smartcard from my neighbour for one-time $50-$400" (depends on the relationship between the customer and his 'criminal' partner).
I don't see DirecTV doing anything wrong. They want to sell a service to a customer and so they're pretty right when they want to charge everybody who uses the service. That's economics.
