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Originally Posted by hyl
people downloading any kind of media (music, games, shows on tv) does hurt the industry even if it's considered normal for many people these days.
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This is false. People illegally downloading
who would have otherwise bought hurt the industry.
1 download != 1 lost sale. It's not even a fraction of a LOST sale, it's a fraction of a sale. Illegal downloads are free advertising, the biggest pirates are the biggest buyers. Sure there are some cheapasses that download instead of buying things that they would have bought otherwise, but I think for the most part, illegal downloads are from people who are trying things out, lack money to buy, or for whatever other reason wouldn't buy even if they couldn't get it for free.
For anime specifically.
http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publicatio.../11010021.html
Government study. Concludes that Youtube (illegal streams) boost DVD sales, and Winy (P2P downloads) does not have an affect on sales. However, its only a correlation and may or may not be causal.