If someone steals a CD/DVD/Game from a retail store, who suffers the loss? The store, the distributor, or the studio?
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The store, they already paid the distributor who has already paid the studio.
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Store. Well, technically, there is no actual "loss" as the profit they make on the rest of their merchandise more than covers the loss of one game. They take things like that into account when they price things.
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I reckon the consumer suffers. Stores price their items including costs from shoplifting.
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The stealer. Hands dowm.
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The studio has already been paid by the distributor. The distributor gets paid by the store when they deliver the product. The store gets paid by the customer who purchases the product. If the product is stolen by someone, the store will raise the price of everything else in the store, to pay for the stolen product. In the end, anyone who shops in that store is going to pay for the product that was stolen. If your friend is stealing, you might ask him to share because you are paying the price for whatever he stole.
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The studio has already been paid by the artist,producer and label & distributor. The distributor gets paid when the store orders the product. The store will get paid when someone honest enough to purchase the product, pays for it. The store has already raised the price of everything else in the store to compensate for the, all too common, theft. Everyone who purchases a product from that store is the loser because they are paying higher prices because someone decided to steal in stead of purchase.
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