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Chrysalis · 02-04-2010, 08:59

ignition the people you speak off will still download 100s of gig per month, the most serial downloaders dont use the well known torrents and will still happily download, so what will change?

legit sales might go up by a single digit number.

underground, pirated goods sold in pubs, in the workplace, on the market will grow again. These people were the real victims of internet piracy, it was their customers that went online and started downloading. People who can afford and are happy to buy media still do that anyway.

So it will be a comibination of people finding more discreet ways to download, hard pirated copies of media been sold on the streets, and a few perhaps resorting to buying media but I expect a lot more will simply choose to go without than buying it.

Lets not forget one thing, the #1 reason people dont buy media is a lack of availability. They either want content not available in their country yet or want old content the copyright holders dont want to make available.

02-04-2010, 08:59	#10
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,047	re: Digital Economy Act 2010 [Was "DE Bill Not Passed, BiS Consulting Already"] ignition the people you speak off will still download 100s of gig per month, the most serial downloaders dont use the well known torrents and will still happily download, so what will change? legit sales might go up by a single digit number. underground, pirated goods sold in pubs, in the workplace, on the market will grow again. These people were the real victims of internet piracy, it was their customers that went online and started downloading. People who can afford and are happy to buy media still do that anyway. So it will be a comibination of people finding more discreet ways to download, hard pirated copies of media been sold on the streets, and a few perhaps resorting to buying media but I expect a lot more will simply choose to go without than buying it. Lets not forget one thing, the #1 reason people dont buy media is a lack of availability. They either want content not available in their country yet or want old content the copyright holders dont want to make available.