Is it really good to buy pirates?

When someone else used XP before, I insisted that I was sticking with it when someone upgraded Windows 7. The OEM Vista Family Advanced Edition has been with me for more than four years.

I will not use pirated people, so I prefer to use free software and outdated genuine. I've always been like this, but at the end of last weekend, when I suddenly wanted to pay for the genuine service, I realized that paying for the money was a good thing.

However, for the few people, they don't think so.

Everyone loves piracy.

With the Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed as the key word for Google search, we will find that a site can always be ranked in the first few results.

This is a truly magical website, Alexa data show that it is ranked as high as 247 in the domestic website, "Torch Light 2" genuine sales are 1 million, and on this site, only one version of the download more than 2.7 million times, a relatively small number of games piracy problem has been so shocking, It's not hard to imagine how crazy the piracy of more popular, more interesting games is.

More than just a PC game with such a serious piracy situation, on the phone, the situation may be even more.

I met a lot of iphone users, they put film, casing, and spend hundreds of yuan on it, but they have very few apps in their phones, or a lot of people just jailbreak to download pirated games.

This is the reality, in these users view, the jailbreak is for the sake of piracy, it is entirely natural, they can not believe that people can not accept the escape will also spend money to buy applications.

People don't just like to play pirated games, they also enjoy privileged services without spending money.

If the "Thunder Cloud" to search, we will find that on the first page at least three applications, the script provides are cracked version. In fact, as long as there are members to pay the place, there must be an endless stream of crack. Over the years, a variety of compact, customized and even flagship Windows systems have been emerging, from office to PS, from games to fonts, from computer software to mobile apps.

Users have taken it for granted that they have become accustomed to piracy.

Who is it?

Adobe Suite on the PC, Maya and other software is too expensive for the moment, but smart phones often but dozens of yuan of applications can also allow many users to use pirated, the question is, this is all the user's fault? Is the user really stingy to this point?

Domestic online games and high apru values have shown us that users never lack the enthusiasm to pay, about six or seven years ago, should be the peak of Wow period, at that time, about 6 million of the domestic players to join.

From the nine city earnings, we can see how enthusiastic the players at that time, the 2006 nine city income of more than 130 million U.S. dollars a year, the growth of more than 112%, the proportion of revenue in more than 99% of the game business income growth of more than 120%, net profit is soaring 331%.

Perhaps, behind the long-standing of the whole environment is the problem of the whole environment.

Problem with distribution channels

In the PC era, Microsoft's biggest disadvantage and blunder over Apple was its delay in building an efficient, unified channel like the App Store, so that even if the user had a plan to support it, there was no clear, simple way. And in the mobile internet era, more and more data show and support the idea that iOS users of genuine consumption and pay is significantly better than Android.

There is a problem with the payment channel

In fact, in addition to the big first-tier cities such as North, credit card consumption in most parts of China or relatively small habits, more people usually use is Alipay, nets, etc., for them, even if the intention to spend 6 yuan or more to buy a genuine version of iOS applications, but find the right way.

Even more frustrating is that the vast majority of users do not know, even if the use of bank cards can also be used to recharge the itunes store and purchase applications, and a large number of premium applications for a variety of reasons are not open to domestic users.

Consumer culture is also problematic

For the vast majority of ordinary users in the country, they also find it difficult to accept the fact that a software, a font is priced far more than the hardware, and more importantly, after more than 10 years of being fed by pirated breeding grounds, in an environment where pirated channels are extremely convenient, extremely lax in piracy, and with extremely low cost of piracy, for many users, Paying for the use of genuine habits is tantamount to a consumption concept of rebirth and Nirvana.

Perhaps only in China such a wonderful consumer environment, said that they insist on paying genuine users will be ridiculed as the moral emperor and discredit, 91 of assistants to crack, free of charge for the application of the selling point and can be so splendid.

From the digital reading and other areas of the trend, genuine consumption has improved, but in the face of so many problems, in such an environment, for many users, whether it is objective or subjective reasons, genuine consumption of the road is still very long.

Victims

If you can use a genuine version without paying for it, how are the benefits of developers who spend a lot of effort protected? Most developers don't even have the money to make a big profit.

Looking at the best and most popular software and applications on each platform, we find that the vast majority of them are charged, while some design, development, and commercial software are often expensive. This is a commercialized society, sometimes simplifying the economic benefits of all progress, not just those of commercial companies, but at least part of the motivation of individual developers.

The lower price of piracy, lower production and distribution costs, not only deprive the legitimate developers of the interests, but also in the market led to the effect of bad currency expulsion of good currency. If users can easily get pirated, and in an environment where morality and the rule of law are extremely lenient, how many people will insist on using the genuine version?

Perhaps the most frightening situation is that only by cracking, copying the way genuine can benefit, then how many people will continue to adhere to the genuine development? If even the interests of genuine development are not guaranteed, how many people will be willing to put their efforts into it? Where did the impetus for innovation come from? is simply unrealistic.

More immediate experience is that all kinds of cracking, free service and application use down, users are always likely to encounter a variety of problems: personal information and privacy disclosure, encounter fraud, service was officially closed, built-in ads countless, in the service update on the slow.

All sorts of problems abound, in fact, for these users, they save the money to see, but in the invisible time and energy is far more than the former cost-this may be the internet age Alive "Maiduhuanzhu" story.

Because of piracy, developers pay and painstaking efforts can not be recognized, and the user itself did not get real benefits, in the Internet genuine consumer ecological chain at both ends of the people in such a situation, how can we expect the development of the Internet and the future?

The more people to use pirated, the development of genuine people will only be less and more, to the end, perhaps we have to face the situation will be, in a piracy rampant Internet desert, the idea eventually dried up, and users have to endure those who have no new ideas of garbage.

Are you still using piracy?

Thank you for your contribution to destroying the Internet.