EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, "Sascha Franck" <S.Franck@g...> 
wrote:
> john mason wrote:<snip>
> > I heard a stat the other day that blew me away. If there were no 
piracy, america's trade deficet would be totally eliminated.
> that's staggering !!
> 
> I don't believe this for a single second. It's sheer nonsense. 
Just the same sort of nonsense record companies and the RIAA are
> telling us, such as "every download is a lost sale" - which is 
utter bullshit. I remember some MIT profs doing a research on that
> thing (and yes, they interviewed people anonymously and things 
like that), and it came out that the actual loss through downloaded
> music was like around 2-3% of the overall loss.
> The same might be true for pirated software, samples, videos and 
whatever (ok, actually, regarding videos it *might* be a bit
> different). I suspect most people being hunters and collectors, no 
actual users.
> Almost all the people I know actually using software have bought 
it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha

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While I agree with you that piracy isn't so large that the trade 
deficit could be eliminated if there was none, I also think the MIT 
study is based on some totally false assumptions. I downloaded it 
when it came out and the authors assume that people who have illegal 
files really wouldn't have them if they weren't "free". In other 
words, people ultimately are downloading stuff they really don't 
want. Yah right!

I have lots of buddies with cracked software and i-pods full of 
tunes they got illegally (peer to peer groups). They use the 
software and listen to the tunes all the time. Their excuse is the 
same thing:"we really wouldn't buy this anyways, so its alright to 
have it".

Sounds like wishful thinking to me.