Just visitin'...
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Originally Posted by Richey79
Was I previously trying to claim that the availability of piratable materials hasn't cost publishers/authors a single sale they otherwise would have had? - It's a question that I find much less interesting than that of why the copyright protection bodies haven't been able to prove any revenue losses incurred as a result of piracy. Surely, if publishers of copyrighted materials are suffering such significant losses, with their resources it should have been easy to do so.
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Their "resources" haven't managed to provide clean digital copies of old works, consistent pricing, global access, or workable DRM systems. If they can't do that, how likely are they to be able to provide accurate loss figures of digital goods that zip around the interwebs faster than any other system can keep track?
But just because they can't provide figures... that doesn't mean there is no loss. Fact is, right now nobody's figures are even close to accurate, and I'm convinced many figures on both sides are made up, since there's no way to disprove them.
(I know, I know...
Smek! Okay, I'm gone.)