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Originally Posted by TheDoc
You need to do research.
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.
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No, the TNO paper you refered to. They conclude that "material" welfare is transfered to the consumer, and "cultural" welfare has increased. Now, is that a surprise for you? That's what socialism/piracy is all about.
I think you should also read their recommendations, especially this one:
Don’t ‘criminalise’ individual end users - educate them
I disagree when it comes to those scumbags making money of the infringements, but for the rest, education is surely needed. Didn't their mama not learn them not to steal? Didn't they learn that if everyone steal or not work, then there will be no one left to support each other?
Education is needed, and pro-piracy proganda on forums is not the way exactly...
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
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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There are many reasons, also complementary reasons, but the numbers do not prove what you try to say. Lets put it this way, quite simple: If you watched a movie.. or downloaded a site-rip - has the chances of you paying for it afterward improved? Answer me - honestly
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
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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Doh again. It's a no brainer that some legal ISP portal have license for the downloads they offer their customers - and torrent sites mostly not. Do you need research papers for that?
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Social societies work.. Piracy is working... what's the issue?
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Social societies is not the same as socialism
And what do you mean by piracy is "working"? They are destroying everything artists, writers, yes even porn industry have been fighting for the hole time; free speech and freedoms. And then they have the nerves to whine about it afterwards? As I said, pirates are not "pirates" anymore - who at least can admit what they are doing is wrong.