[opensource-dev] oh give me a break

[Maya Remblai]

Hm, yes, I suppose that is true. My mind works mostly in absolutes, it's 
easier to just count all the stolen freebies as lost sales. You're 
right, however. My mistake. It was probably fueled by my general bad 
feelings about the incident, because I DO use my earnings in the real 
world, and I also have a strong sense of justice. It bothers me more 
than it should when someone can steal content and go virtually 
unpunished. Even the first thief who was permabanned was back with an 
alt right away.

Maya

Carlo Wood wrote:
> Not entirely true, first of all, he didn't steal any money from
> you, nor any goods; unless you suddenly saw a significant drop
> in revenue then nothing really happened, financially spoken.
>
> It certainly isn't true that if he did NOT give that box to
> those ten people that all ten would have come to you and spend
> L$ 40,000 in your shop.
>
> In fact, most people spend a fixed amount of money in SL. If
> they get anything for free on top of that, it doesn't cause
> them to spend less real money.
>
> So, surely, you didn't get any MORE money because of this..
> but you didn't *lose* $1500 either, not even a fraction of that.
>
>