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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
As I've pointed out above it's not as simple as "simple economics" - if only it were. I have already explained, no less than twice, how illegal downloading plays a major part on the bottom line yet people are either in denial or pretend they cannot understand the premise of "buying" something to see what it is like.
Yes, people will always pirate copyrighted material where there is a reasonable opportunity for them to do so. That does not make doing so right, even if they do go out and "end up buying it".
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I'm not denying that illegal downloads play a big part in the bottom line, but it seems to me that you are desperately clinging on to a business model that is about 40 years out of date.
This business model you quote where every illegal download is a lost sale became obsolete when cassette tapes became popular. Before downloading became an option, people were always making tapes for their mates. Quoting your own source here, the heydays of the record shops were in the 80s. Pirating copyrighted materials was rife in the 80s, and it seems record shops did quite well back then. The only thing that has changed is that it has become a lot easier to get hold of pirated material.
Oh, and for the 'record': no I do not condone the widespread pirating of copyrighted material. I reckon 98% of my music collection has been paid for. In fact, hardly anything of it is downloaded at all. It's all hardcopy CDs and LPs.