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How is it "unraveling"?

• tokenadult 16y ago
  If I correctly understand the submitted article, the claim is that most writings that have been written in earlier decades in the expectation that the author would make money from copyright royalties are now readily available in pirated versions that can be downloaded around the world without any payment to the author. So the paying market is unraveling, because the main distribution of new content now is pirate distribution. Do you read what the submitted article says differently?
  • kiba 16y ago
    Where is the evidence that piracy cause the paying market to unravel?
    • Tycho 16y ago
      CD/music sales have been declining for a decade. The latest Call of Duty game will shift more units in a single day than the top selling album will sell annually. Book sales, overall, I'm not sure, but I don't think they've been in major decline. Yet. The worry is that Kindles and iPads will do for novels what the iPod did for songs: drastically change the preferred method of consumption to something more vulnerable to piracy. The article is predicting a future trend.