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The study also only surveyed those 13 and up.

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RE: Forget being a "fundamental" problem...
By Sivar on 3/24/2011 10:49:14 AM , Rating: 5
The standard response to a car/piracy analogy is that the owner of the hypothetical stereo loses his stereo. No one loses a song because it is copied any more than you lose your voice when someone repeats something you've said.

RE: Forget being a "fundamental" problem...
By Motoman on 3/24/2011 11:04:40 AM , Rating: 5
Exactly. That guy up there is a classic example of the stupidity spewed by people who buy into this BS.

Getting an illicit download of a song, for example, is a copy/paste function. Nothing was "taken" from anywhere, or anyone. Which is to say, the original person who owned it still owns's no more a material transaction than me standing on a park bench and reciting the Gettysburg Address. The original address is still in a museum somewhere...neither the writer nor the owner of the address has suffered anything at all.

To compare it to the theft of a physical object is utter idiocy, and is truly indicative of the wild disconnect from reality suffered by all those who put the slightest bit of trust in the $ figures claimed by the industry/government for piracy "losses."

RE: Forget being a "fundamental" problem...
By Dorkyman on 3/24/2011 11:16:48 AM , Rating: 2
Agreed. The car analogy is baloney, because one object is tangible and the other intangible.

You steal a car, and the car's rightful owner loses the use of that car. You clone a song and the owner still has use of the song. The only "loss" is the revenue the owner would have gained had the thief purchased the song.

My own personal impression is that some songs would have been purchased, but not very many. My guestimate would put the number at 5% of the thief's personal collection. More than zero, agreed, but not by much.

By Hieyeck on 3/24/2011 11:47:54 AM , Rating: 5
Let them use their stolen car analogy.

If the car is stolen, the prior owner needs a new car. Prior owner buys a new car.

So to turn the analogy back, every time a song is stolen, a sale is generated! STEAL MORE SONGS, IT'LL HELP THE APPARENTLY FALTERING MUSIC INDUSTRY.

