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srufolo1
3/29/2017 1:11:47 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Mobile Millennials Lead Video Piracy
@JohnBarnes The typical Middle Eastern businessperson may be just better than his American counterpart of screwing someone over. In an area of the world that operates on the concept of "baksheesh," there's no telling what you may encounter in entering into a business deal with them. I believe the survey result is exactly what you say: an attempt to project honesty even if they know that piracy is not exactly the upstanding thing to do.
srufolo1
3/29/2017 12:57:47 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Mobile Millennials Lead Video Piracy
@elizabethv Your comment makes me recall that Seinfeld episode where the guy was filming in a theater, and, of course, the quality s-cked. I once bought a copy of something, a VCR tape, from a reputable video store in my town, and I could tell it was pirated. The filming was the worst. I could barely watch it.
srufolo1
3/29/2017 12:50:16 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Mobile Millennials Lead Video Piracy
@elizabethv Those "little guys" that work behind the scenes are called "invisibles" in David Zweig's (@davidzweig) book called "Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in An Age of Relentless Self-Promotion." They do their jobs for the love of the work. I got the book out of the library because, as a copy editor, I really related to being an invisible person in a workplace that kept giving all the kudos to the ones who shouted the loudest (read: marketing people).
elizabethv
3/28/2017 10:46:43 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Perceived value
@DHagar - Great analogy! I think in some ways most people are a lot like the Emperor while they parade around online. Maybe what we truly need is some kind of awakening to expose them? So to speak.
DHagar
3/28/2017 7:33:08 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Perceived value
@elizabethv - exactly, they think they are "unmasked" while being totally exposed. Kind of like the Emperor's Clothes?
elizabethv
3/27/2017 9:31:42 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Perceived value
@DHagar - the people that always manage to surprise me are the people who try to act somewhat aloof online, when they are actually being completely obvious about their intentions. Especially when you know them in real life as well, it is easy to see what people are saying and doing, but then they act surprised when everyone knows what they're doing.
DHagar
3/27/2017 5:29:27 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Perceived value
@elizabethv, yes and then they wonder how people know everything that is going on with them. They are fully transparent but feel invincible!
JohnBarnes
3/25/2017 8:33:51 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Mobile Millennials Lead Video Piracy
srufulo1,
And to tie a couple themes together, in a society with sometimes vicious and always unpredictable political policing, the first thought upon being asked a question is "Who might hear this, or ask this, and what would they want to hear?"
elizabethv
3/25/2017 8:13:36 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Mobile Millennials Lead Video Piracy
@JohnBarnes - I think it might be fair to think people who are pirating videos aren't generally completely honest about their actions. Given the illegality of the process, I'm sure it's right up there with asking people if they know where one might buy some heroin. You'd likely have to sincerely trust a person you might give that answer to - if in fact you knew the answer.
JohnBarnes
3/25/2017 6:54:29 PM User Rank Platinum
Re: Mobile Millennials Lead Video Piracy
srufulo1,
Having spent a few eons in sales, B2B small business, at least in the US it is often the case that Middle Eastern immigrant business people regard it as normal politeness and consideration to express hope that anyone they're working out a deal with will also profit from the deal, and to display a polite concern for how the potential deal partner is going to do. (This carries over to, for example, being quite offended when American and European sales people exult, ast hey sometimes do, over having pushed, tricked, or leveraged someone into an exploitive deal). So I wonder if maybe the survey result is just that near-universal tendency to tell pollsters "what a good person would say" rather than what you actually think? Maybe their social conventions make it mandatory to express (polite, pro-forma) concern that the businesses they deal with are doing all right?
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