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charcircuit wrote: post #399
kemayo wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The difficult bit is working out what percentage of pirated copies are actually replacing a sale that would have happened if the content wasn't available to pirate. The more dramatic industry numbers like to claim it's 100%, which is ridiculous. It's certainly more than 0%, though. I'd assume that for your indie game, there were a lot of people who wound up thinking "I would play this if it's free, but I wouldn't spe…

Sales or economics is not the only thing a developer may care about. Some people want control over their work and will be upset from people pirating their game even if it doesn't mean they lose a sale. Similarly many artists do not want you to repost their art or use their art as your profile picture.

Ok, but should we care if those developers/artists get what they want? Some companies would also really like to take games they have sold you away from you so they can sell you the next installment. Some developers don't want certain groups of people they dislike to enjoy their game. Not all things that developers want are reasonable.

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Post by sersi »

Aurornis wrote: post #322
lolive wrote: post #140

I choose the books I buy, from Anna's Archive. I choose the comics I buy from readComicsOnline. I choose the [european] graphic novels I buy from #WONTTELL. And I am one of the best customers of these 3 physical shops, in my town. So sure, I don't buy the latest trends based on ads. I investigate a lot to buy GREAT stuff. Sometimes the shopkeeper has headaches to find the obscure stuff I discovered online that NOBODY…

> Am I an exception? Years ago I was following development of an indie game. The developers wanted to provide a DRM-free experience. The game had some online functionality (leaderboard or something). They were surprised when the number of accounts accessing the online functionality exceeded their sales by a dramatic number. The developer updates grew more and more sad as they switched from discussing new features to…

Which indie game was that?

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by jibal »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #221
ZunarJ5 wrote: post #170

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https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-... From above: 'The Dutch firm Ecory was commissioned to research the impact of piracy for several months, eventually submitting a 304-page report to the EU in May 2015. The report concluded that: “In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. That does not necessarily mean that p…

Unfortunately, absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence. I obviously don't have time to read a 300 page report—I wish I did—but the conclusion says: > With regard to total effects of online copyright infringements on legal transactions, there are no robustly significant findings. The strongest finding applies to films/TV-series, where a displacement rate of 27 with an error margin of roughly 36 per cent (two times t…

Absence of proof is not proof of absence, and Sagan should have said that.

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence if evidence was sought and not found, and much of science is based on this. Or if evidence of presence should be expected ... consider for example the absence of evidence of an elephant in your living room.

This saying should die along with "you can't prove a negative"--Euclid proved that there is no greatest prime over 2000 years ago. What can't be proven is a universal empirical--positive or negative--such as "no raven is white" or "all ravens are black".

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by plastic-enjoyer »

lolive wrote: post #140

I choose the books I buy, from Anna's Archive. I choose the comics I buy from readComicsOnline. I choose the [european] graphic novels I buy from #WONTTELL. And I am one of the best customers of these 3 physical shops, in my town. So sure, I don't buy the latest trends based on ads. I investigate a lot to buy GREAT stuff. Sometimes the shopkeeper has headaches to find the obscure stuff I discovered online that NOBODY…

No, I'm the same. A lot of stuff I read is hard-to-get philosophy or from obscure authors, so I first get them from Anna's Archive. Reading them on paper is much better so I try to find a physical copy later.

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Post by sussmannbaka »

computerdork wrote: post #202

Know am going to be downvoted into oblivion, but as a composer, can see it from the side of creators. Yeah, making their products free is starving these industries. For instance, in music, there is already very little money in music (think about how many musicians you personally know who can make a living off of music, besides being a music teacher). And, the music industry is still not even the same size as it was i…

The devaluation happened through streaming services. Instead of spending dozens of dollars on subscriptions, BitTorrent and last.fm enables me to find what I like and spend the money on Bandcamp instead where it actually reaches the artist I am buying from. I can just get a Spotify subscription instead though, if you insist.

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Post by internet_points »

If there's a book that only has e-book versions on amazon, what is the best way to ensure the author gets money? I'd rather not fill my little apartment with paperbacks, and ordering a paperback and then returning it sounds kind of wasteful. Although I guess I could buy a paperback downtown and drop it off at the used book shop .. What do other people do, when they want to pay authors and read e-books without aiding and abetting Bezos?

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Post by account42 »

subscribed wrote: post #347
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Am I an exception? Yes, I think you're an exception, sorry. We will never have real data on this. But simply on its face, I find it extremely hard to believe that most consumers have a strong enough moral compass to go out of their way to buy something they already have access to. Maybe they will for a tiny handful of special books that they want hard copies of, or authors they really like, but not for most media t…

In several countries customers are forced to pay a special tax on empty media (storage) with the intention of proceedings to be redistributed among the copyright owners. Some of these countries are codified under the Roman law principle, ie whatever is not explicitly forbidden by law, is simply not forbidden (as opposed to common law). In some countries downloading the published media (eg a film after the official re…

TBH don't think those laws are conscionable because the money collected through those taxes is mainly paid to entrenched copyright cartels instead of being distributed to creators in a fair way.

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Post by sulandor »

internet_points wrote: post #437

If there's a book that only has e-book versions on amazon, what is the best way to ensure the author gets money? I'd rather not fill my little apartment with paperbacks, and ordering a paperback and then returning it sounds kind of wasteful. Although I guess I could buy a paperback downtown and drop it off at the used book shop .. What do other people do, when they want to pay authors and read e-books without aiding…

maybe $author has contact information or even a donate button up somewhere

Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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Post by account42 »

zufallsheld wrote: post #414
drdrey wrote: post #299

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who do you hand the cash to in order to fund a website?

Sending cash via snail mail to buy stuff online exists. While Anna's archive does not support it, it certainly exists.

Ok, but now you're not comparing bitcoin to cash but rather to cash+mail, which has many more tracking opportunities.
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