Why are the claims against Piracy put out by organizations
such as the Institute of Policy Innovation or the Record Industry Association
of America so outrageous? Well, these companies hate losing money, even a
penny. And a penny is a lot closer to what they are actually losing compared to
billions of dollars and thousands of jobs that are supposedly lost from piracy.
You’d think that if this were actually true, the economy would be even further
into the shitter than it already is (well, at least in the states). But what I
would like to do is take a look at how the economy might not be losing any kind
of revenue even with piracy. I am speaking solely from the point of a
university student on a shoestring budget so bear with me here. Let’s say Joe
Guy has 10 dollars and his favorite bands new album just came out, but he also
needs to buy food for dinner, and coincidentally his friend just sent him the
link to a torrent site for that album. So now he can get dinner (money into the
economy) and also hear his favorite music. As I’ve mentioned before no one in
my generation is going to pick paying money for an album over buying food. It’s
not a big deal to them… Steal dinner or an album online, what would you do?
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