> This a nonsensical assertion supported by the flimsy justification that the marginal cost of a digital good is so low. Well the total costs of production rema

> This a nonsensical assertion supported by the flimsy justification that the marginal cost of a digital good is so low. Well the total costs of production remain quite high,especially considering the cost of marketing. That could be true but doesn't seem to be. (Though it is possible that due to piracy some capital-intensive virtual/intellectual good are not being made at all.) Note the sort of post scriptum he added at the end: > Year after year I'm told online file-sharing is decimating sales, everyone is losing money, we have to do something to stop it. I'm not going to try and convince you you're wrong, but I do have a question: [...] If online file-sharing is killing these industries, why would they keep producing more content? > I've seen people get quite huffy in these parts for lifting a stupid graphic graphic from a website. I think that's also a consequence of copyright enforcement: "I can't copy anything but when I made something people just copy it?!" sort of thinking. And many people are fine with their work being appropriated without compensation (with credit which is also strictly enforced in the illicit copying world), look at all that GPLv2-, or MIT-, or BSD-licensed software.