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Does capitalism lead to a bootleg economy?

Name: Anonymous 2005-12-15 23:43

As companies establish themselves with brand names, it becomes harder for small companies to break in to a market.  When companies control supply through high production volume and price through cost cutting equipment and manufacturing, then there is a considerable barrier to entry that few small companies will be able to break into.  The only reasonable way to make money in a free market is to work outside the system and hope no one cares.  Look at music, games, anime- the expensive, official versions have a high price and less demand than a cheap bootleg of high quality (or even a free download).  Look on Ebay and you'll see how few sales are actually legit.  Full series boxsets are available on VCD or DVDR, and customers buy because they're much more cost effective than buying each season at full price. 

Look at China and just how widespread their bootlegging is.  Not only do they have more professional packaging and disc making, but they export all over the world.  Even if a company could legitimately afford to license movies,  get a pressing factory, print packaging, and distribute throughout the country, they would have tremendous difficulty making a profit.  Copying someone else's work without permission becomes the only real way to profit.  Is the US headed towards this path as well?  

Name: Anonymous 2005-12-19 15:22

"On top of all that, our "superiority" comes exclusively from being eight thousand miles from Japan and entering a war when everyone was dead. Don't forget that American. Your house's infrastructure has dead Jew babies to thank."

Liberals were responsible for allowing auschwitz to happen and inviting the Japanese to bom pearl harbour. They just love to capitulate and see dictators as the underdog who deserves something, for being the underdog, whether the despot in question is a completely fucking crazy mass murderring war mongerring psychopath or not. Just like you would rather see your family impaled on spikes than put a bootlegger in prison.

Roosevelt, a democrat, even wanted to surrender Hawaii to the Japanese, abandon Britain to the nazis and pay war reparations for the fuel ammunition the Japanese had to use to convince the US to let them control the pacific. There is also evidence to suggest he wanted to be flown over to Tokyo so Mister Hirohito could fuck him in the ass.

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