All that sounds really good on paper, but real life begs to differ!
FORBES's piece on "Swiss Government Study Finds Internet Downloads Increase Sales".
Another study finds music piracy 'does not displace digital sales'
One would think that a government would want to enforce laws and entice consumption so it can get more from taxes...
FORBES's piece on "Swiss Government Study Finds Internet Downloads Increase Sales".
Quote:The report states that around a third of Swiss citizens over 15 years old download pirated music, movies and games from the Internet. However, these people don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertainment are fairly constant. This means that downloading is mostly complementary.
Another study finds music piracy 'does not displace digital sales'
Quote:A report from the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, part of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, has found that "digital music piracy does not displace legal music purchases in digital format", and that "there is unlikely to be much harm done on digital music revenues".
The study specifically looks at the impact of online streaming and downloads -- both legal and illegal -- on digital music sales rather than sales of physical media such as CDs.
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perhaps the most striking finding was that "the majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in [the] sample would not have been purchased if illegal downloading websites were not available".
One would think that a government would want to enforce laws and entice consumption so it can get more from taxes...
