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http://www.ryot.org/music-pirates-buy-more-music/402841

and an excerpt from a UK study as well
"The study's modelling suggested that, for every ten percent increase in the number of clicks on illegal download sites, there was a corresponding two percent rise in legal sales. That's right: "clicks on legal purchase websites would have been two percent lower in the absence of illegal downloading activities". Within individual nations, Spain and Italy saw no effect but the UK and France saw a four percent increase in legal digital music sales attributed to the effect of illegal downloading.

Intriguingly, a ten percent increase in listening time on legal streaming sites only gave a 0.7 percent increase in the number of corresponding legal digital sales, suggesting that illegal downloads are a better "taster" of music content than legal streaming sites if the intention is to generate proper sales."
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/21/music-piracy-doesnt-hurt-sales

kinda found the idea interesting.

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Music Piracy <> Karaoke Music Piracy

-Chris

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of course, karaoke piracy is so much more rampant and dangerous

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I don't think it is any more or less rampant and I don't think either one is very dangerous, but I do think that karaoke sales have been impacted much harder by piracy than standard music.

Just about everyone listens to music. Be that a person at home, people driving in their cars, a person walking down the street with their iPod, a person at a club dancing, etc. The scale at which standard music is sold and distributed and the broad audience they enjoy, allows for the publishers to make up the difference regardless of piracy.

Karaoke music has a very specific audience and is played only in specific scenarios. They are paying licensing fees back to the folks above which drives the price of karaoke music up and forces the breakeven point (ie; quantity of sales to breakeven) to go up incrementally. Given the narrower audience that karaoke has and the smaller scale of distribution, it is much more difficult to breakeven when piracy comes into play.

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Hog Wash. People that buy karaoke tracks, buy them. Those that don't, don't.

I am not disputing who qualifies as a pirate and who does not. But there is a distinct difference in how it impacts different industries and even different companies within industries.

It's kind of like the flu. You can come in contact with the flu virus but it takes a certain amount of the flu virus to enter your system before it will have a negative impact on you. You can only absorb so much before you reach a tipping point and you are a miserable wreck.

The same holds true for piracy, Microsoft can absorb more than Latshaw. Sony can absorb more than a small independent (though it could be argued that piracy may raise awareness of the artists of said small independent label).

The fact is that piracy is theft. It doesn't matter if is increasing or decreasing, people are taking without compensating. Just because there are studies that say that piracy is decreasing or that pirates may buy more, doesn't discount that they are still stealing.

If only the local Safeway would let me steal Twix bares under the pretense that I will buy more later.

But it's not like the respective industries are just turning a blind eye to piracy. They are still very active in combatting it which has also been attributed to the increase in sales -

http://www.spin.com/articles/isohunt-se ... shut-down/

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