On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:51 +0530, ss wrote: > When this system comes into contact with grabbing hungry animals, the animals
actually, indians (or brazilians) may be hungrier than americans, but they are hardly less "animal" in this colourful language. some years ago, i wrote a paper [1] comparing GDP-per-capita-adjusted prices for windows XP + office in 100+ countries to their rates for "software piracy". there is a clear correlation between piracy and poverty; however, this is non-linear and the US, where income is a large multiple of that in india or brazil, actually has a piracy rate (25%) which is not that much smaller than brazil's 56% or india's 70%. so we're all animals; when we're hungrier, we're more likely to grab what's available. especially when it's clear to everyone that with software (or music) the original is not lost when i get a copy, unlike with the fruits from shiv's garden, which are lost to shiv when i take them away. -rishab 1. http://www.firstmonday.org/ISSUES/issue8_12/ghosh/
