Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!Q.T.Honey!newsfeed.rim.or.jp!newsfeed2.kddnet.ad.jp!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!colt.net!fr.colt.net!writer!not-for-mail From: Jean-Marc Desperrier Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Scanlation Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:12:58 +0200 Organization: ImagiNET / Colt Internet Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <2qs19mF134hkuU1@uni-berlin.de> <10kj5g67ehl7a62@news.supernews.com> <2que50F134hkuU5@uni-berlin.de> <10kk5cuhi372c0a@news.supernews.com> <2qv626F134hkuU7@uni-berlin.de> <10kkvqliqak6gb0@news.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host.104.92.68.195.rev.coltfrance.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.imaginet.fr 1095436244 3379 195.68.92.104 (17 Sep 2004 15:50:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@imaginet.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Sep 2004 15:50:44 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040818 X-Accept-Language: fr, en-us, en, ja In-Reply-To: <10kkvqliqak6gb0@news.supernews.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:18540 Kevin Wayne Williams wrote: > [...]. This isn't a case of selling spark plugs on > Sunday: real entities suffer real financial harm. Left to be proven, entirely. The CD market has reached a point of maturity, where it's not suprising demands lowers. The majors have used very extensive marketing to sell their products instead of working on the roots and the quality of product, it's not surprising it backfires. This can explain declining sales as well as piracy. About piracy itself, on one side the number of songs downloaded has almost no relation with the number of songs the pirate would really have been willing to pay for if the piracy option had not been available. But what's more, downloading does make publicity for artists and spurge interest for music, and that can actually lead to buy more music that if you were not downloading. At the end, it requires detailled analyze to say if it's more harming than beneficial economically (for exemple, it's clear than the pirating of some of Microsoft's product has helped Microsoft crush competition, because users are either using a legal version of the Microsoft product, or a pirated copy, but almost never the competition's cheaper alternatives), and it shows they are ways in which smart music's market actors could use it to their benefits instead of fighting it. This of course is not intended to say anything about the legality of piracy, just about whether it does necessarily have a huge negative economic impact.