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New Zealand Shows Music Piracy Boosts Sales

Posted by timothy on from the arrrrrrgh-me-mateys dept.

vik writes "According to This NZ news article it appears local music is being boosted by piracy. Strangely, their Associate Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, Judith Tizard, supports this when she warns that "... while sales of local music are high, so are illegal copies of New Zealand albums." Unfortunately as always, government bodies don't seem to be able to make the connection even when it stares them in the face."

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  1. Umm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    According to This NZ news article it appears local music is being boosted by piracy...

    Are you should this is the right link? All I see is a seven sentence "article" that doesn't say any such thing.

  2. Correlation is not causation. by fishbowl · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Correlation is not causation.

    Repeat that.

    Keep repeating it until it sinks in.

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  3. logical falacy by null-sRc · · Score: 1, Redundant



    corrolation proves nothing.

    ie:

    murders occur while the earth is spinning.

    therefore murders are caused by the earth's rotation.

    OR

    music piracy is high, so is profits from sales, therefore piracy causes profit?

    yeah that proves it? *shrugs*

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