Has P2p Paid For Your Computer?

How much did your computer cost? $1000? $2000? How about your internet, maybe $30 per month?

Now count your MP3s... or better yet, count the number of artists. CDs usually have one artist on them, and usually have 10-20 songs on them. Take the number of atrists of the songs you've downloaded, add a few if you have more than 20 for an artist, since you'd buy 3 or so CDs anyway for so many songs, and subtract the number of CDs you've actually bought. Multiply that number by a common CD price... say $20.

Now add up all the games and software you've downloaded but haven't bought and total it with your MP3 total.

Pay for your computer yet? :) It would be an interesting poll... but i cant create one :angry:

I suppose you could subtract what you wouldn't have bought anyway (Photoshop?)

i've got approx 330 albums
£15 per album

£4950

i'd say i'm doing ok... :D

that's not how your account for the values of pirated songs/software

they have NO values, they are shared freely on the internet so people can enjoy.

dont mix them together.

how much are you willing to pay a copy of pirated software/song?

ZERO!!

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Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@20 October 2003 - 07:21
how much are you willing to pay a copy of pirated software/song?

ZERO!!

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it's not how much you're willing to pay, it's how much it costs... :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@20 October 2003 - 00:21
that's not how your account for the values of pirated songs/software

they have NO values, they are shared freely on the internet so people can enjoy.

dont mix them together.

how much are you willing to pay a copy of pirated software/song?

ZERO!!

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That's true.... but what if you DIDN'T have a computer? This thread is about weather or not you indirectly paid for your computer by using P2P

Oh well I have like a lot of albums with a lot of songs which covers the computer costs. After that it just goes way beyond.

id agree with mr bond.

i wouldnt have gone out and bought the vast majority of the pirate material on my pc, so really the music companies havent lost a great deal, and i havent gained a great deal from them.

Built my own Desktop for £1'200, 12 months ago. I have dl probably about 3'000 mp3 files (about 200 albums)and 300 avi files, I pay £28 p/month for adsl (12 month contracts up, so i can/will be getting it cheaper soon).
Now the figures....
£1'200 - Desktop
£28 x 12 Months adsl = £336
£200 on 700mb cd's - 500 cd's at 40p each (with cases)

Total Cost = £1'736

£1'736 divided between 500 albums/movies = £3.47 p/item. ;)
Say no more. :lol:

Although I would not too buy almost anything fo what I downloaded I still understand the point of the poll. Between music, games, and software I'm well over what I paid for my system. I don't feel like adding up but it certainly is alot more than I would have paid for anything. :lol:

Photoshop is a very large sum of money in the shops, nevermind all the plugins I have for it, which can cost up to $400 each in themselves.

I have easily paid for my PC.