Is the Pirate Bay down?

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highwaystar101 said:

I did a report and presentation for university on Internet piracy and it's effect on the sales of TV hardware and whether it is a benefit or hindrance. I examined both viewpoint for and against examining the various factors supporting both. My eventual conclusion was that it was a pretty big hindrance.

I found out that in countries that had growing rates of Internet piracy had a direct correlation for declining sales of new television technology such as subscribed IPTV services.

Piracy harms the economy in pretty much every way, in fact I could only find one situation where Internet piracy actually spurred the sales of television hardware in any significant way.

I study television technology at university and my industry can't grow because of this. Every time one of these sites flare into existence you might as well spit in my face.

 

If you aren't a neilson houehold then what shows you download has no effect on the content producers.

Tv production numbers? Thats tricker, but it looks like you havent acknowledged several very obvious counterarguments. Neilson rating have showed that people in general are watching less TV and spending more time watch youtube, facebooking, ect. You can

Now you can argue that some of that is people watching pirated content, but what about the legal services? What about hulu, netflix, itunes, ect? All perfectly legal ways to watch television without needing a tv.

And I'd like to see your sales data. Just about everything I've read is that televisions have be selling at record levels year after year.