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Originally Posted by Jaden
No, all of them are eeeeeviiiil pirates that want to destroy the poooor media companies that earn so little money and make them starving beggars by taking the food out of their mouths (and out of the childrens' and wives' and great-grandmothers' mouths, too).
Meanwhile back on planet earth... There's no such thing as a completely evil or completely good person in the world.
I didn't say "go ahead and pirate", but I'm mighty sick of all the people that believe the story that stopping piracy will increase sales by billions and will finally make being in the media industry worth the while when there are movies like "Avatar" that has a box office result of 2.782,3 millions...
There might be people who pirate everything and will never buy a book, CD, pay for their TV access, will go to the movies, theatre or whatever, you name it... but I think these are rather the minority than the majority.
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Increase by billions? No. Stop people who aren't paying from consuming through sites that don't have any rights to distribute the content? Yes. Make sure that traffic is directed to legitimate sites instead of letting a bunch of lazy parasites make ad revenue off of thousands of creative works that they didn't actually create? Yes.
To me, as a creator, those are things worth fighting for if people won't simply stop doing it on their own.