Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo unite... to support internet censorship.

[Mr Khan]

Makaha said:

Mr Khan said:

More accurate to say that if pirates do become paying customers, that it becomes a wash economically. You don't generate money from nothing, and its not like these people who might be consuming certain intellectual properties are sitting on the money that they would be spending, but it is generally acknowledged in economics that a good deal of piracy comes from customers who you are priced too high to access in the first place.

 

 

Well in terms of music, many teenagers today have never bought any music, at all.  Zero. Nada. Zip.

So you're saying that if teenagers couldn't get music illegally online, they wouldn't be listening to music at all??

That's total BS.  In national polls in the US, most teenagers value their music collection the MOST--more than movies and games, and yet they don't pay for it.  They expect to get it for free, like it's an entitlement.  As a songwriter and producer myself, I can guarantee you that producing music is not free.  My 5-string Fender bass by itself cost over $1,000.  My Roland VS-1680 hard disk multitrack cost $3,500 when I bought it back in 2000.  Over the years, I easily spent over $10,000 on my synth/keyboard, acoustic and electric guitars, percussion etc.

When I talk to teenagers in some online forums and I suggest to them that they can save their allowance from their parents (if they get an allowance) to buy music.  That's what I did when I was a teenager, but to the young generation, most can't understand that concept.

 

1. Anecdotal evidence

2. The fallacy here is to equate every bit of pirated music as lost revenue. Sure teens wouldn't go without music, but they wouldn't necessarily consume at the same levels either