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I don't think the money loss caused by the copyright violation is that big as different organisations say. I believe Bill Gates said that without piracy, Windows wouldn't have been installed on so many computers. There is another point of view on the problem, and I'll give a personal example: When Naptser came, there was a rock band on MTV, but I couldn't find their album in our small town, so I started downloading it (I was on a 128kbs modem and it took 6 hours). I liked their music so much that when the album became available I bought it, and then the next two.
The point is that if someone is into something, music, movies, comics they will buy it. If not, they will go for something free, or cheaper or a substitute. So an author should think: hey, I sell 1000 books to 1000 people but I know there are 2000 people who are reading it so 1000 are stealing my stuff. But will, putting the police on them, bring me more money, will I sell 1500 books? Probably not, there will still be 1000 sells but the exposure will be minimized. Less exposure, less popularity, less potential clients. Hight quality works won't be affected by piracy or anti-piracy laws, simply because people like quality and are willing to pay for it, but for low quality or even medium, I believe less exposure would mean total annonimity and even the end.
I am not for pirated material, and making profit by selling others work should be punished. Closing a site, could be seen as a good decision at the moment, but also means that less of the producs are known by the people, so on the long run it could be not that good.
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