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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Comparing sneakernet with 100mbps lines, VHS with Blue-Ray writers, audiogalaxy with rapidshare and high-speed torrents etc.. yes, that is jurassic.
Back in those days pirates were actually pirates, and not spoiled kids who tried to justify their activities in public...
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You need to do research.
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
If you conclude and read the data they way you want to, then it's useless to link only. In the paper you posted above, they conclude the opposite of what you trying to say  |
You mean the report by the IFPI that represents the recording industry worldwide? Well of course they don't make it sound pretty... but the numbers don't lie.
"Single track downloads, up 24 per cent in 2008 to 1.4 billion units globally, continue to drive the online market, but digital albums are also growing healthily (up 36%)."
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
You are blind. Read what they say; Note: in order to provide a fair comparison between movies released in different years, all rankings are based on ticket sales, which are calculated using average ticket prices announced by the MPAA in their annual state of the industry report.
And you know as well as me, that the amount of piracy exploded on this side of the millenia. From 2002 there is a decrease in ticket sales each year, except for 1. Oh.. and did I mention the population is also increasing?  |
You forgot 09, looks like it already bet 08 and is on track to go back for the last 5 years. Not that our Country didn't get attacked, hasn't been at war, had and has crazy economic issues, we lost a region of our country including part of a major city, had several major floods, growing unemployment...
Industries falling all around us, 100's of banks, auto, small business, farms even.. just going belly up year after year after year...
And... sales hit a peak, then held steady, and now go back up...
You may want to rethink your one tracked mind.
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
Doh! They write they have legal partners and you can go their portals. And what do the torrentsites, rapishare etc write on their pages? Please tell me.. or do you need peer-reviews for that?
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Again... go find different data to read then. You can find the straight raw statistics and build your own trends if you want. Or let someone else do the work for you to get you the same results.. at the end of the day, you need to do your own research.
Which you aren't doing.
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Originally Posted by Dirty Dane
o, I read what you didn't their hole conclusion. And not out of context. I think you should read it, and then you will see they are talking about the overall welfare transfers - Socialism and piracy at it's finest...
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Social societies work.. Piracy is working... what's the issue?