EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017)

Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by vinay427 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:22AM (#27829977)

Nearly everyone I know doesn't usually bother with music piracy because of Spotify and their competitors, which offer listening to nearly every song imaginable in a format that's IMO far more convenient than the MP3 days, piracy or otherwise.

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by baobabKoodaa on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:27AM (#27832761)

I'm not talking about the convenience of "the MP3 days", I'm talking about the convenience today. The example I provided was one-click downloading a music video. You countered this with the ability to... stream audio temporarily from Spotify? Not sure how that's relevant. Does Spotify allow you to download mp4 music videos?

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by vinay427 on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:34AM (#27832812)

Your point seemed to be about "music" before veering into an example with music videos, in which I have no experience.

> For things like music and tv series, there's more hassle when acquiring the product via "official" channels.

> I can't fathom why anybody would feel like buying music is less of a hassle than downloading music without buying it.

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Re:EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales ... by baobabKoodaa on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @09:37AM (#27832834)

> Your point seemed to be about "music" before veering into an example with music videos

True. Note that the text you quoted referred to "acquiring the product". Streaming audio from Spotify temporarily is different from "acquiring" the audio file. Do you think acquiring audio files via official channels is somehow less of a hassle than acquiring them via unofficial channels, like youtube-dl?

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