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Originally Posted by lofasz
Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Piracy does not seem to have hurt iTunes and Apple too much. In fact their share of the digital music distribution market has grown. It's not just about content, it's about branding service, availability, and ease of use, which are just as important as content.
Free is over if you do for adult entertainment what Apple did for music. Quite frankly it would be a huge benefit to the industry if some of the people that just wanted to make a quick buck in adult entertainment were to realize that it's not such a quick buck and move on to something else. Reasonably taxing downloads and other forms of digital distribution would actually help separate the men from boys.
I'm no big fan of funding corrupt politicians, but I'm less of a fan of dorks who slap a g-string on some 2 bit skank, fuck her on film, and think they're Larry Flynt.
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There is no way to know how much Piracy has hurt itunes. Sure, they are doing well, but if there were no torrent sites and no way to download illegally how much better might they be doing?