Piracy creates a problem for companies. Instead of receiving money from sales, they get absolutely nothing in terms of money. Instead, their product is circulated through the "market" through copying and torrenting. In fact, music companies alone lose $12.5 billion every year (ipi.org).
So why would people pirate? Well, the reason is pretty clear. Why would you spend money on something you can just grab online? It's very easy to just go on a torrent website, search up what you want, download, and enjoy.
And trust me on this, it is very easy. One of the most biggest pirating site was Piratebay.se. It hosted thousands of pirated games, movies, and software for anyone to download.
But Piratebay wouldn't stay forever. The website has since been closed since December 9, 2014. Pirating is illegal of course. Two of the owners of the website have been placed in prison, and the servers located in Sweden were raided (variety.com).
But this meant nothing to online pirates. Online piracy levels have not dropped at all. The number of IPs tracked using P2P connections (how most pirating is conducted) have stayed at it's average of 100 million (yahoo.com).
No matter what, people will continue to pirate.There are alternate sites or programs people will find. There is no possible way for every piece of pirated digital software to be traced. The desire for free goods will never be gone. If you could get any movie, any game, software, e-book, song, or program for free, would you do it?
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PLEASE NOTE THAT I DO NOT ENCOURAGE PIRACY. PIRACY IS A PUNISHABLE CRIME BY LAW, AND SHOULD NOT BE DONE. FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION REGARDING PIRACY, VISIT http://www.iprcenter.gov/
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