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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
What are these "measurable costs" of personal safety and psychology? How much are they worth? At what price is investigating burglary too expensive? $1,000? $10,000?
In fact, these claims *are not* measurable at all. Which of course doesn't mean that they aren't real, it just points out that trying to add up monetary costs of enforcement vs. monetary costs of crime doesn't work.
And I would imagine people who have had their hard work stolen and offered for free might feel differently about the costs of piracy than someone who is not a victim.
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As Colleen Doran said regarding this era of online ad revenue..
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Pirates and impecunious fans inform me that pirating my work is great publicity, for piracy isn’t nearly as dangerous to an artist as obscurity.
Fame doesn’t necessarily pay, either. Just ask the cast of Different Strokes.
I made my comic series, A Distant Soil, available as a free webcomic less than two years ago. Despite assurances that the many sites pirating my work were doing me a favor with their “free advertising” I never saw a single incoming link from them, saw no increase in traffic, and made virtually no money.
Frequent original content (often pirated the day I post it,) increased my traffic, not pirate “advertising”. Pirates draw traffic from my site, and cost me millions of hits annually, which cuts my advertising revenue.
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