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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
LOL, I was just talking about this to my husband the other day. They never will stamp out piracy because the art of pretending to try to stamp it out in mock outrage just makes too darn much money. Plus their staff of people to make official looking graphs and studies of all the "lost dollars" for shock value.
They can't measure the "lost sales" of piracy anymore than you can measure the "lost sales" from people for whom the item in question isn't even on their radar! I am a lost sale for "Scary Movie" because I had no freaking desire to see it, ever...
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what about lost sales from poor word of mouth while they're at it? i would bet my arm that more sales are lost across just about every genre and item due to poor word of mouth or miserable reviews than any conceivable amount of piracy.
if i go on amazon and loudly proclaim that a book stinks on ice and that it isn't fit to line a bird cage i guarantee that will provide for more lost sales and income than a handful of people who would pirate said book.
not all of us know pirates. but we all know someone who has taken our word of mouth about an item to heart.
so should we ban negative reviews?