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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
While I think the sense of entitlement is ethically wrong, I do have a hard time seeing piracy as "lost sales." Have there been instances where piracy has been reduced and suddenly the sales have gone up?
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Yes.
The passage of France's HADOPI law is correlated with an increase in sales (
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...act_id=1989240 )
Sweden's IPRED law also correlates to lower piracy rates and higher sales (
http://torrentfreak.com/happy-birthd...w-ever-100401/ ).
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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
Last year I had a conversation with someone who claimed to download a terrabyte of digital material a month. I wonder how he has time to consume it all, let alone, if he couldn't do it any more, would he start buying said material?
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He doesn't.
Let's say he is downloading 4gb movie files. That comes out to more than 8 movies per day.
Let's further say he watches 2 hours of video per day, all pirated. The "lost sales" would then be cable services, video rental services, DVD purchases, or lost TV/Internet ad revenue. So in theory he's downloading $3000 worth of unauthorized content, whereas the real losses are probably closer to $150 (or less). And of course, if he's willing to download 1TB of materials per month, he's almost certainly distributing at least some of it to people who are downloading far less content.
The losses are greatly exaggerated, but are still real.