Exactly.. I agree... And if you can't stop to avoid an accident that you could have avoided if you were going 20 mph slower, and you kill someone as a result, who cares, right?
Dude, what more do you want? I agree that it's wrong, and in your own words, theft, but lets look at the bigger picture on how seriously it should be viewed. Take all the Yamaha dealers who will want a legit copy (let's look at the US only, though making the example global will just strengthen my point), and then all the owners of FJRs and you MAYBE have 50,000 copies out there if EVERYONE buys one. I bet only about 2500 copies would actually be ordered, and only 200 or so pirated. In the old days they just photocopied the damn things, it’s been happening forever. I’d be more concerned about the jobs of the people building the bikes that are being replaced by mechanical automation.
So how seriously do you think Mother Yamaha is going to be affected by this form of theft. It costs the same to produce the original document regardless of who many people buy it… the tooling is already in place for the initial production. Anything Yamaha sells after that is gravy. But the guys/gals who designed the thing make their money regardless of how many Yamaha sells. The only thing that would affect their jobs is is Yamaha looks at the sales potential and says “Hmm, with so much pirating out there this wouldn’t be worth producing”, which will never happen with the amount of pirating that does happen. Besides, they HAVE to produce them anyway, so their dealer network can have access to them. I'm not saying it's right, in fact I am agreeing with you that it is wrong. But do you REALLY think this would happen enough to have even a single person loose their job over it?
I'm thinking you must have had some experience with this type of thing and were personally affected to be taking this as seriously as you are. Whatever happened, sorry to hear it, but your response is a little passive/aggressive.
Rene’
