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Australian Record Industry Has Best Year Ever

Posted by michael on from the darn-pirates dept.

Hecatonchires writes "ARIA (Australian Record Industry Assoc.) had their best year ever, but are fudging the figures because they run counter to their anti-filesharing arguments."

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  1. Mirror by topgun98 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mirror here: http://www.silenceisdefeat.org/mirrors/www.smh.com .au/articles/2004/03/28/1080412234274.html

  2. It's NOT STEALING. And it never will be. by User+956 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seriously. No one calls "patent infringment" "patent, stealing", no one calls "trademark infringement" "trademark stealing".

    Copyright infringement isn't stealing either, though they can both be independently illegal. The difference here is that the copyright holder doesn't lose his rights. His exclusivity is infringed upon, but nothing is taken.

    If people are going to insist on analogizing it to something else, I would suggest TRESPASSING. If I put my foot in your yard, I've trespassed. But you still have your yard; you just aren't enjoying it exclusively.

    Anyone who calls copyright infringement "stealing" has an agenda, and shouldn't be trusted.

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    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
    1. Re:It's NOT STEALING. And it never will be. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      Unfortunately, it contributes to monopoly-sharing as explained in this Slashdot posted article (that was mysteriously absent from the main page).

    2. Re:It's NOT STEALING. And it never will be. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      He's not neccessarily defending copyright infringement, he's just saying that falling into the habit of equating it with "theft" is worth avoiding. There's a good reason we have different laws for theft and copyright infringement.

    3. Re:It's NOT STEALING. And it never will be. by DjReagan · · Score: 4, Informative

      > "actual piracy is incredibly rare"

      According to a recent news article its not as rare as you'd think. In 2003 there were 445 reported incidents.

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      "When I grow up, I want to be a weirdo"
  3. Repeat? by Jack+Porter · · Score: 4, Informative

    File Sharing Increases CD Sales

  4. About the author by supine · · Score: 4, Informative
    Steve Cannane is the presenter of Hack, a half hour current affairs program on the national "youth" radio station Triple J.

    There isn't much bio information on the website but he is in his second year of presenting Triple J's current affairs program and was previously a reporter for same. You can listen to the show online.

    He has written some interesting articles for the Sydney Morning Herald in the past, including this one on the decline of Sydney and another on censorship of CDs.

    cheers
    marty

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    "I can't buy want I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me." -Corduroy, Pearl Jam
  5. Re:Keep in mind by sholden · · Score: 4, Informative

    That quote doesn't say that file-sharing helps record sales. It says "... are buying more CDs after file-sharing", which is not the same as saying "... are buying more CDs due to file-sharing".

    It is stating the findings of the research - that after file-sharing that particular group of people are buying more CDs than they were before hand. Causation isn't claimed, only correlation which is the point being made.

    Maybe CD prices have dropped between the before and after file-sharing time frames. Maybe the economy boomed and hence spending on CDs. Maybe the price of DVD players dropped and suddenly a large number of people had a device that can also play CDs in the lounge room.

    The quote you provided makes no claim as to the reasons why, it merely states the correlation. Exactly what the "correlation is not causation" crowd demands.