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Originally Posted by Lord Nikon
Reliable enough citations to back my claim?
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Yes and no.
Primarily because your assertion
"2) It has been PROVEN in the literary environment that downloading of content for free INCREASES legitimate sales. Even when those downloads are free from DRM and of exactly the same quality as the paid for version." directly contradicts your citation wherein you quote Flint himself as saying
"Well, obviously I can't "prove" it, but it seems blindingly obvious to me that it was the fact that An Oblique Approach went into the Library in the fall of 2000 that explains most of that increase".
There is also the matter that piracy is not a factor in Flint's world as he, as an anti-copyright activist, together with all of the Baen authors have of their own volition given their permission for the free distribution of their works or parts thereof.
What is interesting from the Baen model though is the fact that figures after the roll out / launch of Bittorrent (the very month after the last figures provided by Flint) are very hard to find (if indeed any have been published at all).
That said, as I mentioned above piracy is not relevant to their particular business model therefore people legitimately downloading material as offered by the publisher are highly unlikely to fall within the remit of this legislation.
From that perspective I think it best that we try to stay on topic.