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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I've acknowledged that there can be multiple causes for the decline in recorded music sales.
But what you, and several other posters are doing, is adamantly refusing to accept that the huge, unprecedented decline in music shown on that chart - ten year drop that coincides pretty well with the widespread availability of pirated music - might, just might, be due to piracy.
Instead, you keep harping on the fact that no one can say exactly what the loss caused by piracy is - as if the fact that people can't say exactly what the loss is means that there is no loss. That's just magical thinking.
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ok, in light of no concrete evidence or hard numbers i'm going to err on the side of caution and assume publishers are full of it.
of course there is money lost due to piracy. i simply refuse to believe the industry claims that its zillions of dollars. an industry that has a vested interest in keeping prices as high as possible and restricting access as much as possible could conceiveably inflate numbers in order to maintain their iron grip. if hard concrete #s came out that proved that the impact of piracy was minimal they'd have some hard questions to answer about things like drm and their inflated prices.
i'm sure a case could be made that piracy is merely checks and balances. until the back of agency pricing is broken i would argue that piracy is a price-fixing smasher.