28 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwearyDoctor 20 Mar \ parent \ on: Lyn Alden on pirating *Broken Money* econ
oh, absolutely. There are tons of studies on this, that piracy in the end is free PR much more than it is a straight up loss. The "2 download 0 1 lost sale" fiction is lobbied for by the publishers in courts, so courts use that fiction to calculate losses for the publisher, which increases penalties for those unfortunate souls who got picked up for it. It's widely known that these calculations are legal fictions, and BS.