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There is an economic cost. If even one person pirates a digital work who WOULD have paid for it had pirating not been an option, it causes a cost to the producer of the media. So there is a real cost.


And if one person buys a digital work due to piracy who otherwise would not have even known the artist existed, there is a benefit.

Do you have any evidence that the costs outweigh the benefits?


Who is pirating works from artists they've never heard of? Everyone I know who pirates stuff is actively looking for something.


Everybody I know... They download in bulk and sift through it looking for things they like.

And without exception, all of those "pirates" that I know have much larger legal bluray and record collections than I do.




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