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TorrentFreak : EU Plots Pirate Bay Ban and Piracy Clampdown

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:17:54 +0000

Nothing can work if it has not even been tried yet.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:59:58 +0000

Do you have any evidence that sharing harms the sales of anything? Most people who download would not have bought it anyways, and it does indeed help the exposure of an app.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:58:07 +0000

I'm against the MPAA And then... stealing someone else's work Yep, you are touting the same line as the MPAA et al. Like it or not, you are espousing the same thing as the MPAA.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:56:59 +0000

Considering how you have made an illogical analogy, I would say that the same would be more true for you.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:56:13 +0000

The new poll does not contradict the old poll. If you have even read the results, it has shown that in most cases people would still not buy if for those who have downloaded it.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:54:55 +0000

Yes, it is scienfic evidence, especially when it is done by Gallup.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:53:45 +0000

If you have even read the study, you would see that most would buy only a few of what they have pirated, and only for a lower price than is currently offered. It does not contradict the earlier poll findings.

TorrentFreak : EU Plots Pirate Bay Ban and Piracy Clampdown

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:17:20 +0000

Perhaps you don't realize it, but every person's vote is counted equally. The power of numbers clearly works when it comes to voting.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 05:35:16 +0000

Actually, evidence has shown, in a Gallup Poll, that for something to be available for free does not affect whether people buy something or not. Most people who download would not have bought it anyways.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 04:47:39 +0000

Indeed, one of the biggest concerns is that it places these independent developers on a dependency on and control under Apple. How could one call them "indie" when they are under Apple?

TorrentFreak : EU Plots Pirate Bay Ban and Piracy Clampdown

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 04:17:29 +0000

Although some EU countries, like Italy and Poland, score low on the Corruption Perceptions Index, most do not. See: www.transparency.org/news_room/in_focus/2008/cpi2... The fact that everything in government works based on bribes in the EU countries is plainly false. It would be more true if you were talking about a country like Burma or Somalia, but the EU countries are not such places.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:54:57 +0000

How is it ripping profits if there are only a few apps that you would have purchased in the first place? Do you have any evidence that it would make people less likely to purchase any individual app?

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:46:27 +0000

What evidence do you have that the results of the poll would have completely reversed itself between 2002 and now? Also, sir, you, sir, do realize the difference between income and property, right, sir? For example, sir, businesses compete with each other all the time, sir, diverting the other companies' revenue stream, sir. It would be a stretch, sir to say that this is stealing, sir. In addition, sir, the results of the Gallup poll has stated that free availability would not divert the revenue stream in the first place, sir, since it does not affect most people's decision to buy it, sir.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:30:49 +0000

Well, sir, I must admit, sir, I was almost fooled when you, sir, have stated that you, sir, are a student, or, at least studying something, sir, but, of course, you, sir must be the same person as stfu/Sam I Am/freetard/Free Lunch Brigade/Reasoned Mind/MadDog... sir. After all, only you, sir would say that the results of the poll must have completely reversed in these 6-7 years since the poll, sir, without even providing any more recent scientific poll with a randomized sample, and a sufficient sample size (although it must be below 10% of the whole population, in order to ensure that the probabilities are independent), that contradicts this Gallup poll. Only 15% of the impact of this will hurt apple; 85% will hurt developers (relating to the profits from what you're stealing). Do you have any evidence to show that this statistic here was not just made up on the spot?

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:22:56 +0000

You know you've lost an argument when you have to be *that* pedantic. It is, sir, rather, sir, a sign that somebody does not take the argument seriously, sir, because this person realizes that the argument is somewhat pointless, sir. Also, sir, if, sir, you want to disprove the law of large numbers and or the fact that the margin of error, for a fixed confidence level, is inversely proportional to the square root of the sample size, then, sir, you, sir, are the one with the burden of proof, because, sir, these mathematical principles, sir, upon which this poll operates, sir, is very much widely accepted, sir. Or, sir, at the very least, sir, come up with a more recent result that contradicts the results of this Gallup poll, sir, especially since you, sir, have not provided anything better, sir.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:13:22 +0000

I'm not here to defend the MPAA / RIAA etc. They're idiots who don't have the brains to adapt. And then... taking what you want without any recompense to the person who created it because you're too greedy / ignorant / feckless / stupid / fucked up (delete as appropriate) to see how you're making every iPhone developer (you know, the people who actually *make* stuff worth paying for, unlike people like you) reconsider whether the investment of time will be worth it ... interesting. So, how do you reconcile these two seemingly inconsistent statements? Also, as shown by a scientific Gallup Poll, for it to be available for free does not affect whether people buy it or not.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:54:13 +0000

It is a single poll, but it is not over seven years ago, because it is between six and seven years old. The margin of error was 4%, and the confidence level is 95%. There is no other poll to contradict this result as of now - certainly you are not able to come up with any scientific evidence to contradict this.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 02:47:05 +0000

In reality, for these applications to be free does not affect whether people buy them from the store or not, for the vast majority of people, according to a Gallup poll. It does not free the developers from their income. It seems like you have much less conception than myself.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 01:19:41 +0000

I would suppose that it disturbs you only because fewer people have lost their senses enough to call it "logic and common sense" in the first place.

TorrentFreak : One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 01:17:56 +0000

You are incorrect. According to a Gallup Poll on file-sharing, the fact that something is available for download for free does not affect most people's (above 80%) decision to buy some software or not.