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Has Any Creative Work Failed Because of Piracy?
Andorin writes "Anyone familiar with the piracy debate knows about the claims from organizations like the RIAA that piracy causes billions of dollars in damages and costs thousands of jobs. Other studies have concluded differently, ranging from finding practically no damages to a newer study that cites 'up to 20%' as a more accurate number (PDF). I figure there's got to be an easier way to do this, so here's my question: Does anyone know of any creative works that were provably a financial failure due to piracy? The emphasis on 'provably' is important, as some form of evidence is necessary. Accurately and precisely quantifying damages from p2p is impossibly hard, of course, but answering questions like this may lead us to a clearer picture of just how harmful file sharing really is. I would think that if piracy does cause some amount of substantial harm, we would see that fact reflected in our creative works, but I've never heard of a work that tanked because people shared it online."
the commodore amiga, the computer for the creative mind, failed due to piracy.
When Coca-Cola accidentally created 100 million cans of faulty Coke, those Atlanta based pricks quickly brought back something closer to the original and called it Coke Classic. David Puttnam must be yet one more self-absorbed movie-industry asshole (as redundant as that is) to have missed that shining example.
Selling BBS software for money? Your friend was an idiot. Go try to sell a torrent-tracker server for money!
The BBS was for warez like the Internet is for porn. Your friend would have made money writing PBX software at that time. Phone-Box eXchange were high-value gizmos by then, and would certainly not be pirated by the kind of companies that used such.
Making laws based on opinions that stem up from false informations leads to witch hunts.
I don't understand why people put her down.
Really? I do. She is a moronic bimbo with marginally less musical talent than a sack of portland cement.