Piracy Increases Anime DVD Sales, Study Concludes

Piracy can be considered as advertisement of a product, since pirated media help to spread the word about them.

This would be negative for the industry only if the distribution networks were far too conspicuous and the content pricing too expensive.

So, for the content industry to achieve the maximum gain, the status quo should remain as it is. The industry should maintain a reasonable pricing for the content and keep fending off piracy, so that it will not become pervasive, but not eradicate it, since would also annihilate a really effective advertisement system.

 

 

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Piracy Increases Anime DVD Sales, Study Concludes

via OSNews by donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) on 2/4/11

Piracy hurts the content industry. This has been the common line of thought in the piracy and copyright debate for years now, and even though study after study highlight that this is simply not the case - or at least, not as clear-cut a case - the content industry and its avid fans continue to spread this party line. Well, yet another study, this time from the Japanese government, has concluded that piracy actually increases anime DVD sales.

 

 

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