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Originally Posted by Rathji
So no one who ever would have spent money on a song/cd/movie/dvd ever downloaded it instead?
Wow that's a nice delusion.
You cannot deny that the availability of free media online has reduced the demand for music and cost the companies who make that media money. I didn't make my post to preach the evils of downloading music though, I was simply pointing out the very obvious flaw in the logic of the posters I was responding to.
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We can try.
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Interestingly, the statements seem to fly in the face of a recent Government Accountability Office study released to U.S. Congress earlier this year, which concluded that there is virtually no evidence for the claimed million dollar losses by the entertainment industry. That study suggested that piracy could even benefit the economy.
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