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How Much Do Music and Movie Piracy Really Hurt the U.S. Economy?
- byoung2 15y agoIt's likely that the effects are quite different for movies and for music. For movies it seems much more likely that downloading a pirated movie directly substitutes for renting one, since the experience is largely the same (watching on your computer or streaming it through a set-top box). Music, however, is possibly helped by piracy (the artists more than the labels). I have downloaded pirated albums worth $10 from some artists, only to go see them several times at concerts worth $50-100. If I hadn't heard a deep album track from the pirated album, I would never have gotten into those artists.