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Piracy is progressive taxation
[Tim O'Reilly]
Tim O'Reilly writes in 2002 about font piracy. Some quotes from that article: - Lesson 1: Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
- Lesson 2: Piracy is progressive taxation. For all of these creative artists, most laboring in obscurity, being well-enough known to be pirated would be a crowning achievement. Piracy is a kind of progressive taxation, which may shave a few percentage points off the sales of well-known artists (and I say “may” because even that point is not proven), in exchange for massive benefits to the far greater number for whom exposure may lead to increased revenues.
- Lesson 3: Customers want to do the right thing, if they can. Piracy is a loaded word, which we used to reserve for wholesale copying and resale of illegitimate product. The music and film industry usage, applying it to peer-to-peer file sharing, is a disservice to honest discussion [...] The simplest way to get customers to stop trading illicit digital copies of music and movies is to give those customers a legitimate alternative, at a fair price.
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