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Originally Posted by jgaiser
*Nobody* knows, because *nobody* is tracking the data. It's just easier and safer to complain about how much the publishing industry is losing than finding out it may not be as bad as we hear and in fact *may* have a positive effect.
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O'Leary also indicated that even those trying to track the data could not, due to the nebulous nature of the web, torrents, etc. I think it's safe to say that the existing web (with its presently wide-open architecture) will never give us concrete numbers, only the vaguest of approximations and a lot of supposition based on heresay and anecdote... IOW, guesstimations.
Waiting until someone has concrete numbers to go on is an experiment in futility and frustration, and it's ducking the point. This isn't a numbers issue, it's a cultural issue as significant to our era as the shift to treating slaves as people. We don't need data, we need discussion.