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Originally Posted by stonetools
Its certainly a convenient theory, but many studies say different and attribute the recording industry decline to piracy and casual sharing in large part.
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Hmm, I wonder. There are also many studies which say otherwise. They prove that persons who use 'piracy' are more inclined to buy music than others. Not all of them of course.
Only, they buy music from 'smaller' bands and artists who they never new without 'piracy'. I agree that the so-called 'big' artists will sell less. But, is that related to 'piracy' or the recycling the same-old same-old over and over again?
The same relates to the movie industry. The complain very heavily, but make more profit every year. Cinema's having more viewers every year. And still they complain about piracy. True, their 'blockbusters' will have lower revenues (actually, a blockbuster should be decided by the public, not the movie company...), but the smaller films generate much more visitors. Same thing as with the music industry, a lot of the 'big' films are the same-old same-old. Visitors don't want that anymore. They rather download it and go to a smaller film which has more content.
Like most big industries, the media industries are very slow in changing and instead of looking and listening to their clientele, they try to bully their clientele into accepting the old method.