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Originally Posted by fugazied
"the compulsive collectors who download and re-share without ever reading one"
That's an interesting phenomenon because those kinds of people don't really count as 'lost sales'. When there is an abundance of resources (ebooks, mp3s etc), people who don't really 'want' the material and would never pay for it still collect it. The rush they feel for getting something which society places value on for free is some kind of psychological rush.
I should know, I used to download/collect movies for that reason. Lots of the films I would never watch, I'd just burn them to DVD so 'one day' I could watch them. End result, a few hundred DVDs covered in dust, unwatched. Now you can buy a movie from itunes very easily, and I cant be bothered downloading some crappy quality CAM version of a movie. I just wait and get it in 1080p direct to computer. I also don't collect/save movies now because I know in 10 years time we will have fibre to home, we will be able to buy media at very cheap prices and a full movie will download in 30 seconds.
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I wonder how common this compulsive "hoarding" type of behaviour really is though.
Hoarding and other compulsive behaviours are actual psychological disorders. Being "disorders", these behaviours are not considered the norm and are comparatively rare in the "real world".
Yet when file-sharing is discussed these supposed masses of hoarders and compulsive downloaders who would never buy the material, never even read the books etc are brought up as if they are the norm rather than the exception.
Just as the idea that every download is a lost sale has no basis in reality, I'm sure the idea that the majority, or even any significant portion, of downloaders are simply hoarders who would never use the downloaded material has no basis in reality either.
Cheers,
PKFFW