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Dutch Study Says Filesharing Has Positive Economic Effects
An anonymous reader writes "In a study conducted by TNO for the Dutch government the economic effects of filesharing are found to be positive. According to the 146 page report (available for download, but in Dutch) filesharing is good for the prosperity of the Dutch: with filesharing more media are available, even though this costs the media industry some profit. One of the most noticeable conclusions is that downloading and buying are not mutually exclusive: downloaders on average buy just as much music as non-downloaders, but they buy more DVDs and games then people who don't download. They also tend to visit more concerts and buy more merchandise."
...but where's the torrent?
This is the evidence to wwhat I've suspected all along - file sharing is patriotic and the RIAA is trying to destroy the economy by undermining media sales with their spamigation method!
This is the final proof that pirates are destroying the economy!
Pirates are like terrorists!
And they pervert children to pirate more!
Pirates steal music and musicians everywhere are suiciding because they're so poor.
Did you already forget the article? Or do I have to blabber about children and wars for a while until I totally misdirect your atten... Until we really concentrate on the pirate comunist music thieves.
RIAA/MPAA spin to debunk this report will begin in 5..4..3..2..1..
Double Dutch?
Information wants to be $17.99
If only they'd learn to cook, they'd be perfect.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
That American corporate/government policy would have it backwards?
If only they'd learn to cook
What are you talking about?
I once ordered coffee and cookies at some cafe or coffee shop or something. Man, those were some great cookies!
Just a reminder: Dutch is spelled with a capital D, just like how american is spelled with a lowercase a. Thanks,
The Dutch.
We've sold you New York, for a ridonculous low price, for one thing.
Information wants you to quit anthropomorphizing it.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Oh yeah, that's right. And the Dutch also gave us option contracts, as they were necessary to facilitate tulip mania. So, in a sense, the Dutch invented derivatives.
Cool. Didn't know that.
So this global financial crisis is really your fault.
Actually, the whole scheme was designed to entrap our neighbouring countries into spending way above their means, so that we could perform hostile takeovers on bankrupt nations. However, this took way longer than anticipated and somewhere along the way we forgot the original purpose of the design. And now we're all in this mess together...
Ok, apart from the humanism, trade, Erasmus, Spinoza, Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, and inventing the stock market - what have the Dutch ever done for us