I read this off-hand comment -
piracy has an economic impact on the owner of the intellectual property,
Prove it. It cannot be proven. So now remove that unwarranted claim from the discussion. What argument is left?
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piracy has an economic impact on the owner of the intellectual property,
Prove it. It cannot be proven. So now remove that unwarranted claim from the discussion. What argument is left?
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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However...
How Could you prove the opposite: "Piracy has no impact on the owner of the intellectual property"?
Is there a practical way or any sort of empirical evidence that may prove that there´s no impact at all?
Thanks in advance
The universe is designed so that you cannot prove a negative. You've posed a negative to be proven.
The burden of proof is those who assert a positive:
piracy has an economic impact on the owner of the intellectual property,
There is no warrant for this claim. If there was, in the last several decades someone would have.
In China bootleg copies of MSWorks are sold for $5.
OK, but how does that have an economic impact on Microsoft? Prove it.
Someone puts their name on my book and sells it.
OK, but how does that have an economic impact on me? Prove it.
Someone stencils LouisVuitton on luggage and sells it.
OK, but how does that have an economic impact on LV? Prove it.
It cannot be done. Yet we spend enormous amounts of money fighting it and caging people who get caught doing it.
There is simply no proof piracy has an economic impact on the owner of the intellectual property,
any test will fail in validity or reliability.
We all love a system that promises to give us what we want, even if we know it cannot be true.
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