Therer's a cost to enforcement and a cost to NO enforcement . The cost topbnNo enorcement is the record not made, the book not written or the artitic career abandoned bec ause the artist cannot make money from her original creations . That's harder to quantify , but it's there.
Creating original work is hard. Creating great original work is harder to still. Contrary to popular belief, artists aren't special snowflakes. They create and publish work only if they have the incentive and resources to do so.
According to this writer, piracy and file sharing are driving musicians aaway from making original recorded music .
He has a link to a chart
HERE showing that musicians are recording less. ( The image tag isn't working for me).
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So this is the data I am looking at. It’s all aggregate and most of it is hard data. Those who argue things are better for the artist now usually cite anecdotal cases as evidence, cook the books by excluding data or simply argue that there is no conclusive evidence file sharing has had any effect on recorded music revenues. In other words it’s an unproven theory like global warming, evolution and the roundness of the earth. It’s just a coincidence recorded music revenues dropped 64% since the advent of file sharing.
I think the recording studio data is really important. This is an expense that is common to the independent artist and the label artist (label artists pay for recording out of “their” advance money). Further they can roll in revenue from live performance and other sources into the recording budgets. So you get an expression of the artists entire revenue outlook when you look at the recording process. The fact that artists are spending much less TIME recording can only mean they have less money or expect to make less money. When hundreds of artists of all kinds do this simultaneously it’s hard to argue that artists are making more money.
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The music industry is the worst affected by widespread file-sharing , but any industry that produces digital media faces the same dynamic . Bottom line, the harder you make it to earn income from creating original work, the less original work there will be .