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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Let me spell it out for you for you.
The claim that piracy exists, or even grows, in the absence of DRM does not imply that DRM does not encourage piracy. The only way you can use an empirical study to imply that is if your study managed to magically contrast two scenarios:
1) Remove DRM, wait two years, measure change in piracy
2) Rewind time, do not remove DRM, measure change in piracy
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If anyone wants to borrow my time machine to conduct this study I would be happy to let them use it for a fee.