Piracy In Brazil

[VariKusBrainZ]

I could go on, but the cause of these patterns is obvious.

Globalisation

That would be OK if it was working well and managed responsibly.

But it's not so this is moot.

[stratum]

I could go on, but the cause of these patterns is obvious.

Globalisation

That would be OK if it was working well and managed responsibly.

But it's not so this is moot.

Like having a large number of spoiled kids in a kindergarden and a knob that adjusts their behavior in chaotic ways.

[syntonica]

Ebay doesn't care either. There is tons of cracked software on there all the time. I have alerted the devs for a couple I saw in the past but it just keeps happening.

For people who can't be arsed to torrent...

What's really sad and telling is that when you *insert search engine here* for any piece of software and at least 9 out of 10 hits (or more!) will be for warez, whether by torrent, download, serial, etc. Literally, some of these links come before the actual company producing the software. I'm amazed any developer even bothers anymore.

[syntonica]

In short, if somebody irresponsibly manages a global currency supplier like U.S. people will have these problems in Brazil, India, Turkey and many others. It's a simple mechanism, that printed money has to go somewhere, and naturally it seeks highest amounts of speculative gain.

I just see it as currency manipulation. The usual pump and dump scheme so that that people with more money than they could ever spend short currency and make even more money than they could ever spend. Meanwhile, some countries can never get out of the third-world toilet, like Romania, Turkey, Vietnam, etc.

[WilliamK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

[quikquak]

The comments on that video tell you everything...

[WilliamK]

This one is much better, more real too.

https://youtu.be/ALZZx1xmAzg

[an-electric-heart]

Actually... forget it.

[stratum]

In short, if somebody irresponsibly manages a global currency supplier like U.S. people will have these problems in Brazil, India, Turkey and many others. It's a simple mechanism, that printed money has to go somewhere, and naturally it seeks highest amounts of speculative gain.

I just see it as currency manipulation. The usual pump and dump scheme so that that people with more money than they could ever spend short currency and make even more money than they could ever spend. Meanwhile, some countries can never get out of the third-world toilet, like Romania, Turkey, Vietnam, etc.

That's the usual one. What has been going on in the recent 10+ years is quite atypical and interesting.

[starflakeprj]

These piracy threads are always interesting to follow. I found a report, released in June this year, which is build on surveys throughout the world. It seems true (and this is no shock of course) that the poorer the country (and its habitants) are, the higher is the software piracy, generally.

However, in South America, Brazil has the lowest rate of unlicensed software installations. 46% comparing to Venezuela with its 89%. This was 2017. Back in 2011, the rate was 53% for Brazil and 88% for Venezuela.

The report can be downloaded from https://gss.bsa.org/

Someone mentioned Europe as an example where people can afford software. While this is true for most of the western Europe, it's not really true for all the central and estern parts of Europe. Sweden, for example, where I live, has a piracy rate of 19% for instance (Luxembourg has the lowest at 17%), Armenia has 85%.

I'm a bit divided when it comes to piracy in poorer countries. I understand people living there can't afford expensive software, but there are so many free alternatives nowadays, that wasn't available ten years ago. Now you can even get a fully fledged DAW for free (Cakewalk), and there are loads of average to great plugins available for free. There are many reasons to download illegal software nowadays, because it isn't the software that makes the producer (I should know, because I would possibly be world famouse if it was ). But still I have an understanding of younger people (who are still in school), and people living in poorer countries, downloading illegal software. As long as they purchase the full version when they can afford.

But what's more worrying than piracy (especially in Brazil) is this:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/envi ... in-forest/

[Acid Mitch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

It states “ you wouldn’t steal a movie”. So why do all large stores selling movies waste their money employing security guards and cctv ?

Many people steal when they have the opportunity.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018 ... f-checkout

In some places it’s so bad that police no longer have the resources to deal with it.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/89702 ... isters-law

Some people are going to steal stuff weather it’s online or offline.

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

Maybe in the future everything becomes cloud based and you dont send out software ...people log in to use it. Kinda like a netflix of plugins.

[fmr]

Maybe in the future everything becomes cloud based and you dont send out software ...people log in to use it. Kinda like a netflix of plugins.