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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
You post some bullshit, and then say "search for yourself"... Yeah, that makes me look like a moron. 
The stuff you posted so far, is jurassic, and it does not even prove what you say. Go to the forums and blogs, and you'll see what pirates actually say today. If there are 10.000(??) researches, then please post 1 link, one only, to some economic peer-reviewed research.
I agree, however, that money are made out of piracy. But it ends up in the wrong hands.  |
How is to the end of 2005, Jurassic? That statement makes you look really stupid. It's about history, going back and looking... and it was the first result on Google.
US Movie Market Summary 1995 to 2009, the data is from the mpaa and 09 isn't done. Now... This a big overview, we can't see all the breakdowns within the market. That shows exactly where DVD sales went...
http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
How about this one.. "95% of all music is pirated" <-- damn!
http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_...s/dmr2009.html
"The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales, up from 15 per cent in 2007. Recorded music is at the forefront of the online and mobile revolution, generating more revenue in percentage terms through digital platforms than the newspaper (4%), magazine (1%) and film industries (4%) combined."
Funded by the Gov, wanting to find problems with Piracy... oops.
http://www.ivir.nl/publicaties/vanei...ranslation.pdf
"The research shows that the economic implications of file sharing for welfare in the
Netherlands are strongly positive in the short and long terms. File sharing provides
consumers with access to a broad range of cultural products, which typically raises
welfare. Conversely, the practice is believed to result in a decline in sales of CDs,
DVDs and games."
Again... one search, all in top 5 listings.. if you want anymore data, you can read it by the 10,000's from every niche, sub-niche in the niches, across countries, languages, ages... technology based... so much, it's truly 10,000's of hours of data.
This time... why don't you do the leg work rather than spouting off again.