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  • idealotus@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can piracy be good for the media industry?
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    9 hours ago

    Thanks for the link! For those that didn’t want to look at a 100+ page study, a few takeaways:

    • this is from 2014

    • they looked at this from a few angles: film/TV, games, books, and music.

    • they had conclusions for each media type. For example, from the Conclusions section: “The low willingness to pay any price suggests that if the film or TV-series were no longer illegally available, they would not have downloaded the film or TV-series from a pay site.”

    • Music at €0.90 wasn’t too expensive for folks (so they wouldn’t pirate a ton)

    • Confirmed Gabe’s sentiment that “Piracy is a service problem” with books. If books went out of print, they found that Piracy should go up.