how does piracy affect the economy of a country?
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Well, it keeps the FBI busy, which raises our taxes.
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There are none. Tax is a neccessary burden on the economy for government apparatus to function, and does not affect economy, at least positively.
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When we import products from other countries we spend US currency to purchase them. This money then goes to fuel the economy of whichever country the product came from. (We pay applicable taxes on these products that go to our local city,state and federal government.) If other countries do not buy our products and we keep buying there products this affects jobs and the value of our money. A devalued dollar can work both ways. It will affect US citizens in a negative way and affect foreigners in a positive way. Hopefully the people we trust to keep this balance can manage to keep it in check. I hope this answer puts some light on the topic.
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Politics and economics are closely intertwined. That is why it was called the political economy.Their influence is so pervasive that they affect all aspects of life - including culture. Economists are challenged to explain exactly how economic behavior influences  culture. Conversely, culture has a profound impact on economic behavior. Both culture and political economy influence each other in many ways.\n\ncc
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Yes, using pirated goods is the same as stealing.  You are stealing the food right out of the Software Developers' mouth.
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GDP is the total value of goods and services produced by a nation.
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The same reason no single government on earth has been able to crack down on drugs, illegal weapons and organized crime.  There are too many people in on the scam and earning money off of it to effectively stop it.  Even if they plan raids of smaller outlets which sell pirated merchandise, the bigger factories which produce these things will only produce more of them.  \n\nIn a nutshell, if you don't catch the big fish, they will always produce guppies.
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would it make said entity a shareholder of the country. that would reduce he country to a business at wich point the country will see more corruption than has ver been imagined before.\n\ni also believe that richer nations would impose sanctions because they like having poorer countries in there pockets.
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If you mean Piracy in terms of information theft (like stealing MP3's, movies, or software off the internet) then likely not. Corporations will continue to spend a lot of time and money both in and out of court to keep their properties from being freely distributed in this way, but smarter, faster, and newer methods of countering them will always arise. The internet is here to stay, and along with it, a revolution in the way that information is distributed.
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A countries economy is it's money system.   It is how much money the government makes, (from taxes and resource collection) and also what that money is spent on (social programs and defense spending ect.).\n\nP.s.-Naveed Zafar Sheikh - see how he said 'simple terms'?  He seems like a student to me, or at least an economic novice.  Nice answer, but terrible at answering in the way the question asks.
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The government can control the economy, providing stability and a sense of certainty that would lead to a rise in economic activity. The economy can then sustain a steady growth
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Pirating short circuits the market economy and encourages people to take advantage of other people.
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A good question (but perhaps better off in the economics area of the site). Every pound or euro note you hold has been printed and spent by the state (before you receive it from your bank or employer or client), and on the day it was printed, the total number of pound notes in the country changed slightly.\n\n  This is the issue we are discussing here: how much money can a country print before it causes disaster?\n\n    The answer is that generally a country may print or create a small amount of cash on top of the notes it takes out of circulation, but while deciding how much to print, it must take a very careful look at recent inflation and exchange rate statistics.\n\n   If a country prints too much money, both the inflation and the exchange rates will go haywire / will be adversely affected. This is because, as money becomes more abundant but the things you buy with money do not, the ratio of people wanting to buy stuff and people selling stuff changes. \n\n  Simply put, if a country doubles the amount of money in circulation, then market forces will automatically take down the value of the exchange rate at least by half, prices of all goods and services will go up (will double), and imports become harder to afford as it now takes at least twice as much money to but the same imported goods.\n\n   Why is this not the case for the USA (and the Eurozone)? It is sometimes and to an extent (for the above reasons), but:\n when much of the extra money that is added into circulation does not get spent and then spent again by the person who received it, and again ..., instead the money is stockpiled somewhere (by a person, a company or a government), then the above affect does not take place until the stockpiled money is spent again. \n\nAnd if the total amount of money in the world being stockpiled (most large stockpiles are in dollars and euros as there are used for international trade and to keep other currencies stable) goes up, so (to conclude in the correct jargon) non-inflationary increases in money supply are possible.
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check out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy
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technically its piracy, i was told a while back by my boss, do what you can afford.
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Great market if you deal with piracy and competitors.
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the thing is if u import cheaper ur resources will be located to some other industry so in the long term ur economy will benefit from it..the thing the more open and liberal u are the better u get..we could build an utopian society if only we wanted so..