Piracy Nets Lower Prices

August 6, 2007 by Dan in News with 4 Comments

Avast Matey! Pirates in China have forced Microsoft to lower prices on Windows Vista by up to 50%. Vista Home Basic is now priced at 499 yuan ($66) from 1,521 yuan, and Windows Ultimate is 899 yuan from 1,802 yuan.

Microsoft is not the first company to cut prices due to piracy. Warner Home Video is offering DVD’s at $1.50 per DVD to stimulate sales. Do you think it is unfair to consumers in countries where piracy is not rampant? Are they rewarding bad behavior?

Tensenki

Good behaviour…
Alan Rager

Wait, so if I want a legit copy of Windows Vista at a decent price, I just have to download it a couple torrents?
Lisa

Shouldn’t music and software sales have dropped here as well then?
I mean, how many people do you know who downloads their music and picks up their copy of, say, Adobe Photoshop off of their local P2P network?
Come on now. This isn’t cool.
reva

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