[lucideer]

I don't really know if piracy is good for business, but I don't believe it's bad for it. At worst, its net effect is innocuous for content-creators.

Your example expanded with more context is something I've heard - I wouldn't fully agree with that rationalisation, but to expand further I would say that torrentors who would have otherwise bought your content often will anyway, and often wouldn't have if it hadn't been torrentable (not so much because there's a culture of sampling before buying - there is but it's rare - but more because torrent sites are far superior even to Spotify as discovery platforms, which is the best that's come out of the industry to date).

Add to that the balancing nature of a network where exposure is not governed directly by economics, and you see discovery naturally decreased for Beyoncé and U2 relative to <insert any genuinely struggling content creator>.

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