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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop...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Re:Kim Dotcom: US Government Is Protecting An Outdated Monop...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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