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Itse · 06-29-2013, 10:50 AM

Piracy has no effect on sales. This has been studied multiple times, and the results are pretty much the same. It actually propably mildly increases sales.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21856720

Besides, while profits are down, music sales are actually up. So really what we have is not a situation where people are buying less music, we have a situation where music has less value as a commodity.

So why are profits down?

To start with, there is much more competition for the entertainment dollar these days (especially the games industry, which has grown into an entertainment giant).

Also; before most people had even heard of the internet, analysists were saying that the CD era was one of inflated sales numbers, as people were replacing their old LP's with CD's from the same artists. The music industry tried it's best to turn reselling the same products to the same customers in new formats a continuous cycle (remember the minidisc, Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio...?).

However, that project failed and now digitalization has essentially killed that business almost completely.

Even further, music business has been inflated ever since the album era began. It was well studied that most people never listened to the albums they bought all the way through more than once or twice. In the vinyl era many never even flipped a single over. With albums becoming longer from 30 minutes to 45 minutes and now typically an 1h+, people were paying for more and more music that they didn't actually want.

This was good business, but it also ended.

None if this is news to the entertainment industry, so they are not really lobbying for tougher piracy laws because they think piracy is hurting sales.

Piracy is a crime is because making it a crime has proven to be nice new business model, and corporations are competing in coming up with convoluted logical leaps to create new streams of income through legal means.

For example a recent EU court decision means that propably in the future the IP industry will get a piece of the sale of every printer and printing product. Because you know, they COULD be used to print copyrighted material.

It's insanity, it's scam, and it has absolutely nothing to do with poor suffering artists.

06-29-2013, 10:50 AM	#40
Itse Franchise Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Exp:	Piracy has no effect on sales. This has been studied multiple times, and the results are pretty much the same. It actually propably mildly increases sales. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21856720 Besides, while profits are down, music sales are actually up. So really what we have is not a situation where people are buying less music, we have a situation where music has less value as a commodity. So why are profits down? To start with, there is much more competition for the entertainment dollar these days (especially the games industry, which has grown into an entertainment giant). Also; before most people had even heard of the internet, analysists were saying that the CD era was one of inflated sales numbers, as people were replacing their old LP's with CD's from the same artists. The music industry tried it's best to turn reselling the same products to the same customers in new formats a continuous cycle (remember the minidisc, Super Audio CD, DVD-Audio...?). However, that project failed and now digitalization has essentially killed that business almost completely. Even further, music business has been inflated ever since the album era began. It was well studied that most people never listened to the albums they bought all the way through more than once or twice. In the vinyl era many never even flipped a single over. With albums becoming longer from 30 minutes to 45 minutes and now typically an 1h+, people were paying for more and more music that they didn't actually want. This was good business, but it also ended. None if this is news to the entertainment industry, so they are not really lobbying for tougher piracy laws because they think piracy is hurting sales. Piracy is a crime is because making it a crime has proven to be nice new business model, and corporations are competing in coming up with convoluted logical leaps to create new streams of income through legal means. For example a recent EU court decision means that propably in the future the IP industry will get a piece of the sale of every printer and printing product. Because you know, they COULD be used to print copyrighted material. It's insanity, it's scam, and it has absolutely nothing to do with poor suffering artists.