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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Right, so now get into your time machine and see what the world was like without piracy. Oh, right, you can't. So we're all left groping in the dark looking at trends in overall statistics and making inferences.
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Chicken or egg .. The overall market for entertainment was either stable or increasing throughout the last years - file sharing not withstanding. Film and music quite often got first shared "more then average" and shortly afterwards their sales increased (Heise had some studies on this topic - but its German). But I though the music-market was unimportant for eBook?