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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well, I'm glad we have moved to independent academic studies about whether piracy causes harm . ( File sharing is a euphemism, similar to "ehnic cleansing" as a euphemism for "genocide") . But there are a lot of academic independent studies now. Whats the consensus?
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The first reference is to an article written in 2004 which hasn't been published yet, and that should be a good sign that it isn't good enough to get published.
Then you have not an article, but an essay which concludes, based on the earnings of a single quarter that RIAA’s litigation efforts that there was an initial decrease in file-sharing, but we don't actually see an effect for the whole year:
The essay also makes a strange statement:
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However, eliminating piracy altogether was never the RIAA’s goal.
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The second reference concludes that the industry benefits from taking legal action because investors like this solution. It doesn't talk about increased sales as a result of taking legal action.
Did you even bother to look at the references that are used?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're not giving "a newspaper"; you're making an unlimited number of copies of your newspaper and giving them ALL away.
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So your problem is not with the action, but with the numbers? From the point of view of the numbers, there is no difference if 100 people give their newspapers to 100 other people, or if 1 person gives 100 copies away.