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Re:Inventor stumped by 43-year patent delay by onli on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:48PM (#7330698)
> Games released via Steam have shown evidence that when a singleplayer game is unavailable as a torrent for free, then people will pay for it.

When? Where? To my knowledge, no such study or data in favor of that thesis exist. For music I know of a counter-study to such statements: http://www.scribd.com/doc/131005609/JRC79605, which concludes with

According to our results, a 10% increase inclicks on legal streaming websites lead to up to a 0.7% increase in clicks on legal digital purchases websites

and

Essentially these papers show that illegal music downloads have little or no effect on legal digital sales.

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Re:Inventor stumped by 43-year patent delay by dhoulb on Sunday March 02, 2014 @09:48PM (#7331769)
Wrong way round.

You want to know if clicks on illegal sources have an effect on legal sources.

Not if clicks on legal sources have an effect on illegal sources.

Yes, it's important.

No, they're not the same.

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Re:Inventor stumped by 43-year patent delay by onli on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:33AM (#7333001)
> Not if clicks on legal sources have an effect on illegal sources.

But that is not what the study is about?

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