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Originally Posted by Catlady
If I accept your statement at face value, then the pirate sites are barely inflicting a few pinpricks on the big-name talent, which makes the sites pretty harmless overall. Shouldn't the Johnny Nobodys stop whining?
That's not the issue. Of course the pirate sites cost some sales, as do--again--borrowing and buying secondhand. Why get worked up only over the pirate sites but not the other means of distribution that also lower sales? To be logically consistent, it seems to me, one should be angered by borrowers and thrift store shoppers as well as pirates.
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Because what pirates do is illegal. It's why stores don't just ignore shoplifters. There's a difference between tolerating losses because people are engaging in perfectly legit activity and taking action to stop people illegally exploiting you.
Also too the losses due to piracy may be in fact substantial. The music industry revenues are down 64 per cent since mass piracy and file sharing began in the late 1990s. That's waaaaaaay more than a pinprick.