The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

>The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-found-piracy-do-1818629537
cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf

Why? I thought EU were good guys

>piracy doesn't harm sales

BULL FUCKING SHIT
Every dollar that is stolen is a dollar that could've gone to the company, so it harms the sale.

This is absolutely retarded.

>I thought EU were good guys
>I thought politicians were the good guys

No you didn't. Well, not unless you've got brain damage.

Did you read that pdf?

Piracy has zero effect on companies like Microsoft. It's mostly a problem for the gaming industry.

>I thought EU were good guys

>implying commies wouldn't love piracy

>free, unsupervised content that allows people to form an informed opinion
>commies

>EU were good guys
since when were jews good guys

i guarantee you half of the people leeching entertainment would not buy it anyway

if they won't buy it they shouldn't have it

>Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

It does harm somewhat, saying it doesn't is BS.

If they want to sell it, they should lower the prices

It's not their job to pander to the lowest common denominater you fucking communist

If you read what you yourself wrote again you'll save me the bother of pointing out how retarded your statement is.

I agree. Most people who say "I pirate before I buy" are legit 95% bullshit even if there's massive sales and such.

But they usually do and then think it's worth the obscene price they put on it

How low is too low?
For digital goods they can recreate (so making it 0.01 cent is possible) as many copies as they wish but costs of production, labour and such make that unfeasible.

There are many people who are complete misers in how much they are willing to pay even with sensible pricing (and there are a lot)

>"I pirate before I buy"
i will legit do this if i am about to (ever again) buy some video game because of SFXT for windows

>costs of production, labour and such make that unfeasible

Then the costs have to go lower and don't tell me they can't.

I never pay for anything, I just keep leeching from Russian sites.

...

what a suprise.

purchase interest - purchase power
purchase interest - no purchase power
no purchase interest - purchase power
no purchase interest - no purchase power

the moment you are looking for piracy you had no purchase interest in the first place.
if anything piracy spreads your product acting as advertisement which might lead to purchase interest.

...

Thanks for RARBG. Unironically the best site to get Czech porn from.