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Originally Posted by afv011
Casual pirates are probably the ones less tech-savvy, whereas the heavy ones would be more knowledgeable of how to mask their activities. I have no data to prove or disprove that piracy has gone down, but I am very sceptical that this Hadopi law has done anything to lessen piracy to any meaningful degree.
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Before unauthorised downloading became a mainstream activity (thanks mostly to the constant advertising of it in the press releases put out by the entertainment corporations that got picked up by the news), "casual pirates" would buy their downloads on CDR / DVDR at flea markets and the like.
When they started downloading their own for "free" that gave them more disposable income, and some of that might have been spent on other entertainment. Now that unauthorised downloading has moved back underground they will go back to buying CDR / DVDR from the people who used to sell them before.