"Palladium" and TCPA

Nick Barron nikb at cix.co.uk
Mon, 1 Jul 2002 07:59 +0100 (BST)


In article <003a01c22013$690b2240$caff1e3e@pwt2>, pwt@iosis.co.uk (Peter 
Tomlinson) wrote:

> such as M$ Office, just as in the case of music CDs, most of those who 
> have pirate copies would not buy the real thing if they could not pirate a 
> copy.

Very true, a large proportion of piracy is down to the "me too" imperative 
I think. The numbers used by the software industry are based on a "formula" 
that is based on the number of PCs sold that assumes that x% will buy a 
certain type of product. Very scientific.... :)