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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
This time. You can add this lobby to the others you fight against.
"SOPA will have no effect on piracy"
"Laws will have no effect on piracy"
"prosecuting pirates will have no effect on piracy"
"prosecuting downloaders will have no effect on piracy"
"Anything you can think of will have no effect on piracy"
And any I missed.
Do you have anything positive to add to the anti piracy debate?
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All that is true. And has been proven. Prosecuting downloaders increased piracy. the three strike law increased piracy. This is proven. There is no debate. They did it, it increased piracy. Fact.
What I've said that is positive is to stop wasting time and money fighting a fight you cannot win and spend that time and money trying to make a better product that is more compelling to buy. Start multi variant testing, start spending money on better marketing, better content, better UX, improve your sales funnel etc.
All of that would have more of a result on your bottom line that trying to push water uphill.
It's particularly silly to start worrying about torrents in 2012. They savvy pirates all stopped torrents YEARS ago. It's like banning betamax piracy. Who cares?
Nice to see your ignore list working so well Paulie!