[ SECRET POST #6063 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6063 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

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That depends on a lot more things than you're considering. People try it over and over in countries that actually enforce their IP laws and get shut down and fined, while the people who know better than to do that shrug and go about their business. As you saw upthread.

People have better luck paying off law enforcement and enagaging in open piracy in some parts of the third world, but competition is intense and profit margins often very thin because everyone has equal access to what here would be "protected" brands, and it's nearly as easy for a consumer to go to a copy shop and print out a superhero poster (or fanart that they liked, or torrid erotica, or whatever) for themselves as it is to get any of that from a street seller.

Also, part of why the big companies don't bother trying to shut that down more is because most people literally cannot afford to pay for a legitimate copy of anything. So their options are between "we get a reputation for being asshole bullies that terrorize peasants, and if people were to stop pirating our stuff they'd also stop wearing it or having it in their house, and it would be replaced by some competitor's thing that wasn't obsessively policed" or limiting their efforts to complaining to the government periodically. You can probably guess what they tend to do!