[Sil_liS]

Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

I can even find a torrent-friendly web site admitting that French piracy declined. Not only is there a logical relationship between sanctioning piracy and people doing it less, there's objective evidence for it.

(As far as the rest of the headline, that sales didn't go up, this wasn't your claim in #29, but someone will perhaps now make it. We can at least say that book sales have held up.)

I don't think that this is the point that they are making. They don't feel the need to contest the fact that piracy went down, they are simply pointing out that sales went down. Consider what was said in the OP. Hadopi was supposed to do more than just stop piracy, they were supposed to provide alternatives. If they would have done their jobs, sales should have increased.