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Originally Posted by Hellmark
The 15% drop may be a drop in just CD sales.
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Read the 2nd article. Physical media sales up 30%, digital 57%. I.e. unless or until proven otherwise, the "15% drop" statistic is apparently wrong.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
I'd be affected less if the government forbade me to receive snailmail and use a telephone...
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Keep in mind the judgment blocks access only to your home. You can still access via work, library, Internet cafe etc. Not sure about via mobile phone.
And I think you underestimate the value of paper mail and the telephone.
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Post hoc ergo propter hoc, and correlation != causation. I doubt their methodology is quite sound enough to be able to assert this with any degree of confidence. The lay term, which is luckily apt, is "wishful thinking", and it's meaningless if nothing worse.
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*shrug* Exhibit as much confirmation bias as you like, the "mere correlation" makes a fair amount sense -- as does attributing the 30% plunge in Internet traffic to the day the law kicked in. Or do you have a better explanation for an increase in legal sales in the middle of the worst recession in over 60 years?