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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Over all sales in the last 30 years. What do you think caused the greatest increase in porn sales and why was it and what do you think we can learn from it?
Bit late for some, but this get get a few of you thinking.
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the betamax case
it created the fair use right of timeshifting which cause the copyright holders to find ways to compete
which created the pre-recorded movies marketplace
pulled porn out of the theaters and into their homes.
which begat DVDs.
The lesson to learn, stop fighting fair use, stop demanding the government step in and fix the problem, start leveraging the technology that you keep complaining about (torrents etc)