Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monopolistic Business Model

Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by njs12345 on Thursday March 01, 2012 @12:59PM (#3653188)

There's no necessity or moral right behind it, but I fail to see how an action which does not harm others but benefits yourself is immoral --- much piracy has this form; here's a study which says that only 20% of album sales displace sales: http://www.nber.org/papers/w10874.pdf?new_window=1

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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by batista on Thursday March 01, 2012 @02:22PM (#3653578)

If the study is true, 20% is huge (assuming you meant to write: "20% of an albums piracy displaces sales").

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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by njs12345 on Thursday March 01, 2012 @02:44PM (#3653680)

There's probably still a net increase in welfare, although of course that's quite hard to measure.

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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop... by sophacles on Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:16PM (#3655180)

Not to mention the almost impossible to measure fact that once a work is in the zeitgeist, by wide spread sharing, it also will likely make more money than the same song that didn't get that level of exposure with no piracy.

If this wasn't true, why would the music industry pay to get songs played on the radio?

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