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Originally Posted by DamianJ
"In 1986, the US Defense Department funded a two-year study by the RAND Corporation, which found that the use of the armed forces to interdict drugs coming into the United States would have little or no effect on cocaine traffic and might, in fact, raise the profits of cocaine cartels and manufacturers."
"A 2008 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron has estimated that legalizing drugs would inject $76.8 billion a year into the U.S. economy ? $44.1 billion from law enforcement savings, and at least $32.7 billion in tax revenue ($6.7 billion from marijuana, $22.5 billion from cocaine and heroin, remainder from other drugs)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_...s_to_taxpayers
It's been a war that has been lost. It costs billions. It is a total fuck up. Drugs are more widely available and at a better purity than ever before.
I don't understand how you can support something that has failed utterly?
I am saying, and I think this is the 2398293 time I've said this, that the money wasted on fighting piracy would generate more revenue if it was spent on marketing and making a better product. I've seen no proof that spending money on fighting piracy has any impact at all. In fact, the opposite, as more people are pirating now than ever. The PR that the cases get has been shown to increase traffic to piracy sites with the case of TPB and Jamy wasshername. |
"might" "estimated"
If I could be bothered, which I can't, I might be able to find an estimate as well saying the opposite. So with my apathy on googling irrelevant shit to add to a debate on a porn board about adult piracy out of the way, are you saying we can apply the same logic, and legalize piracy, which would make us all more money?
2398293 times you've said that, but you still didn't just give yes/no answers to my questions. Fuck me, you are as bad as wankham.
And again you cannot say there is proof that the more money spent on fighting piracy, the bigger the increase in piracy. You can state it as opinion, but since there is no way to compare, ie publish figures with zero piracy, you can't state it as fact.