If a used CD store loses a million in sales to piracy, that’s a million less that the business has to pay bills, pay employees, buy new merchandise from the originators, etc.I’m sick and tired of hearing this argument. If someone goes out of their way to pirate music or software, chances are that person would not have purchased the music or software in the first place, thus no financial loss to the used CD store, artist, or software developer. You can’t lose something that you never would have had in the first place. How does one come up with billions of dollars of lost revenue when a business model is based on the distribution and sales of crap that nobody wants to buy? When something does come along once in a great while that is worth purchasing, and it drives quarterly or annual sales up higher, why is that quarter or that year still considered such a loss? What has to happen for the RIAA and MPAA to say that their industries are growing despite the pervasiveness of p2p?
As a comment on a post about BitTorrent, someone named O’Dell had the following to say:
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