According to a study done by the Dutch government, file-share-sharing has a positive effect on the economy - not only in the short-term, but in the long-term as well.The study yield a 142-page report that looks at both the economic and cultural effects that file-sharing has on the music, movie and gaming industry. The report estimates that the positive effect on the Dutch economy is around 100 million Euros a year. It also recognizes that the entertainment industry suffers some losses, but not enough to blanket the benefits.
The researchers noted:
File-sharing gives people access to a wide range of cultural goods and is often used to sample content that is bought later, the report concluded. Most file-sharers would have never bought the content they downloaded, but having access to such a large media library increases the welfare of Dutch citizens.
News source: TorrentFreak
We download them for us and when it come out on DVD we buy it.
When it come to music i d/l all me music never pay for it, an why? cus i like to make me own cd's. I aint buying 3 or 4 albums just to get the songs i want cus most time 1 cd is good other cd is crap, somtime a few songs are good and most of the cd is crap. Also i aint paying for single track either cus i dont think there that good value for money.
I have only d/l 1 game in me life and thats Mass Effect, and thats a play once and shelve it item to, i mostly stick to MMO's now least its kinda different most days.
If file sharing was legal, i think most ppl would still go buy the stuff just for extras or the leaflets or the pretty box it comes in or someat.
RIAA and them are stupid cus its like telling a kid that he cant do something. If he isnt allowed to do it they want to do it even more.
And that's exactly the problem. We didn't need a new report to figure that out.
It's easy logic to follow that if most people wouldn't have bought the content they downloaded then the content makers aren't getting enough revenue to continue making content and that means we run out of content. I wonder how that would affect "the welfare of Dutch citizens".
Of course it doesn't, they just like screaming as if butthurt because they think the will earn a little less by this.
They don't realize that many people don't buy the stuff without sampling it before.
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