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Originally Posted by sirbruce
My position is "you don't have enough data" so I don't need data to support my position.
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No, originally your position was:
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
Well I still feel that as people shift from pbooks to ebooks, ebook piracy is going to grow and become significantly more of a threat
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(emphasis mine)
I refuted this by saying that 1 download does not equal one lost sale. I gave an example from the movie industry. Regardless of the example, judges in America have supported the fact that 1 download = 1 lost sale is a fallacy.
In fact, as Kovid pointed out earlier, 1 download does not even necessarily mean .001 lost sales. The impact may be zero, or may in fact even be negative.
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
You can't equate that at all; at best you'd have to find a correlation between movie piracy and DVD sales/rentals.
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So, I found you a correlation with the same example between movie piracy and DVD sales/rentals.
I gave you reasons showing that if ebook piracy grows, that doesn't necessarily mean it will have a more harmful impact. No, no one can be 100% sure until it happens, but now everyone considering this argument has more reason to believe me than you. In fact, you yourself have more reason to believe me than you.
Now you're saying my examples don't mean anything?
Even if my example was completely irrelevant, then no one would know anything and you shouldn't be making blanket statements like:
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Originally Posted by sirbruce
So as pbook sales shift to ebook sales, a growing percentage is "lost' due to ebook piracy.
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