Thread: Cutting Prices is the only way to stop piracy
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Old 03-17-2011, 02:03 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
It can, actually. Let me give you a trivial example: you're a musician and sell CDs. I buy one.

Now I make a copy for a friend of mine (and, just for the sake of argument here, let's assume this is violating your copyright). You don't know about this copying of mine. Are you seriously going to suggest that your copyright has now decreased in value?
This would never have been re-released if it wasn't for unauthorised mp3 blogs creating a demand for it:

http://www.lavidaesunmus.com/prestas...id_product=619

So the question would be did those unauthorised copies increase or decrease the value of his copyright?

The original sells for £130 upwards on Ebay, I suppose you could make a case that it might devalue that slightly.
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