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Originally Posted by kad032000
Bad statement on my part. Causation is relevant to your side of the argument. And there isn't any on your side. I'm not trying to prove causation. I'm trying to prove the causation you believe exists (or will exist) is not there. Correlation is often enough to prove this.
Person 1: A causes B.
Person 2: No it doesn't. Proof? There is no correlation between A and B.
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Once again:
1. This is not an argument, this is a discussion.
2. There is a correlation between A and B. The Dark Knight is more popular than other movies. The Dark Knight made more money on DVD. The Dark Knight was also pirated more. Did pirating reduce the amount of money The Dark Knight made on DVD? Impossible to know without a time machine or lots of data from lots of movies under statistically controlled conditions.
3. The movie industry is *irrelevant* ebook because the adoption rates of DVDs is much higher, movies have box office revenues independent of DVDs, consumers have found an acceptable price point for DVDs, and so on. The same goes for music, etc. There are so many other factors it's not even funny.
4. Nearly all of this has been said before, and should be pretty obvious to you.