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ScreamSmart t1_jd51pat wrote

Reply to comment by Loki-L in Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove Internet Archive hurt sales by soboi12345

Same old song and dance. AFAIK they've never proven piracy was killing video game or movie or music industry either.

Infact quite a few people turn to piracy when the service they pay for geoblock content, has worse ui and quality than piracy sites and are less likely to conserve old media.

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Fair-Lingonberry-268 t1_jd5ahmg wrote

They want us to pay for shitty products, that’s it. This way they’re forced to work for more quality content otherwise not even pirates would download it imho

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turtleship_2006 t1_jd5f9pp wrote

Also IIRC there was an EU study showing the exact opposite about piracy (that was never fully published or something?) But I don't have a link to that on hand.

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ScreamSmart t1_jd6rrsf wrote

Yeah there was something about people who pirate remain to be one of the biggest purchasers of that media.

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