http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?n.../01/20/1320242
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Ars Technica has a story on a ruling by a US District Judge who rejects claims by the RIAA that the number of infringing downloads amounts to proof of the same number of lost sales. The judge ruled that 'although it is true that someone who copies a digital version of a sound recording has little incentive to purchase the recording through legitimate means, it does not necessarily follow that the downloader would have made a legitimate purchase if the recording had not been available for free.
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surprised that it took this long for a judge to realize something that they teach in first year economics
if price goes down to zero, demand increases. The only sales lost are all those above the equilibrium point how decided not to buy.
Of course having to now prove that point is going to make it a lot harder to get a conviction now.
Stupid fucks should have made a reasonable guess about the true lost sales rather then try and defend the fundamentally stupid position that every download represents a lost sale.