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Originally Posted by stustaff
Unless it IS a non crime that doesnt hurt anyone!
has there been any conclusive evidence of it hurting anyone yet?
or any conclusive evidence of it benefitting the 'owner'?
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The only independent (ie not commissioned and funded by entertaiment industry) research I have seen said that copyright infringers spend more on legitimate digital content than non-copyright infringers. The entertaiment industry's own research was recently debunked by the US Government. Oddly enough, neither of these have been reported in the mainstream news media.
Entertainment industry profit has also risen at the same time that copyright infringement became a mainstream activity. I personally believe that this is because the people who used to buy unauthorised content on CDR are now downloading it themselves for free and then spending the money they would have spend on CDRs on legitimate content. I don't have any proof, but it does fit with all the known facts.