Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers

INTEL SOURCE LINK : forbes.com

Julian Sanchez has an excellent piece in Ars Technica which takes a look at the claim that content creators are being discouraged from creative pursuits due to online piracy – a claim that has fueled the recently stalled anti-piracy legislation in congress.

Whether SOPA and PIPA would have actually worked is an open question, but whether they were ever even necessary to begin with is even more important.

Sanchez looks at the music and movies industry and finds that, relative to many other struggling industries, these entertainment industries have done far better on average during the recession:

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