UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy

Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by azalemeth on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @07:59PM (#28387073)

Piracy, when casually undertaken by 50-70% of the population does not harm or even mildly helps sales, as found in a suppressed EU-wide report [1, 2] that you can read in detail here [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27798879 [2] TFA: https://www.engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pira... [3] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/59e... or https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_s...

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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by tzs on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:15PM (#28387186)

Are you taking into account the effects on sales of substitute goods?

If I pirate say a $500 graphics editing suite I can easily believe that does not represent a lost sale to the maker of that software. There is simply no way I'd buy a $500 graphics editing suite.

But it might represent a lost sale to Pixelmator, because if I could not pirate the $500 graphics editing suite and could not afford to buy it I would have turned to a less expensive solution, such as Pixelmator Pro which is $40 and I can afford.

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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by account42 on Thursday September 02, 2021 @07:30AM (#28390754)

If I download the GIMP, should that count as a lost sale to Pixelmator. Should the law somehow protect them from that?

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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by barbecue_sauce on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @08:41PM (#28387370)

That sounds more like a failure of marketing on Pixelmator's part.

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Re:UK national extradited to US for film/TV piracy by mortehu on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @09:36PM (#28387731)

This "study" is a survey. No experiment was undertaken to actually determine a casual relationship.

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