From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It’s a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
Yeah seems like there is about a 5% loss in sales for new movies and negligible loss for everything else according to that source. Notably the source does not say that piracy increases sales but of course it didn’t why would someone read a fucking source before citing it. I mean it’s not like the source addresses specifically what questions the source attempts to answer and the results they found in the opening fucking paragraph.
From a technical standpoint and a legal one, piracy is copyright infringement, not theft. It’s a similar behavior but fundamentally different altogether at its core, largely because the victim of piracy does not lose anything tangible, only a perceived opportunity of a sale (which can be argued as not having been an opportunity in the first place depending on who is performing the piracy).
Both are bad, but people calling piracy theft have a terrible misunderstanding about it.
Studies consistently show that piracy increases sales.
Got any of those?
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf
Yeah seems like there is about a 5% loss in sales for new movies and negligible loss for everything else according to that source. Notably the source does not say that piracy increases sales but of course it didn’t why would someone read a fucking source before citing it. I mean it’s not like the source addresses specifically what questions the source attempts to answer and the results they found in the opening fucking paragraph.
Just call it training the AI in your brain. You couldn’t be expected to be successful if you had to pay for all that training material…
It’s not a misunderstanding. It’s deliberate misinformation.