To return fire on Animal's statistics on file sharing, here's the viewpoint of a
published artist - complete with verifiable statistics debunking the RIAA's crap:
Prime Palaver #11
See also
Prime Palaver #6 for a discussion on internet piracy of IP in general.
Here's a quote from that last article:
Quote:
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What happened in the interim? Well, obviously I can't "prove" it, but it seems blindingly obvious to me that it was the fact that An Oblique Approach went into the Library in the fall of 2000 that explains most of that increase. It would certainly be absurd to claim that being available for free somehow hurt the novel's sales! I can guarantee you that most authors would be delighted to see a two-year-old title suddenly showing a spurt of new sales.
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[ 12-23-2004, 11:43 PM: Message edited by: Sir Krustin ]