Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that a lot of people downloaded the album without paying. I just find it unlikely that the full 62% could be attributed to fans deciding that they didn't ever want to pay for it.
"what data we do have is that 62% of the bands FANS decided not to pay the band for their album."
No, the data we have is that 62% of albums were acquired without payment. That does not necessarily translate to 62% of fans getting it without payment. For one thing, a person can download an album and then buy it if they like it, contributing to both slices of the pie chart. Then there's the people who hadn't heard of the band before, and so at the time of downloading could not be considered fans.
And even discounting those, you're still getting mad at the fact that that number of people didn't buy the album. I can't begin to count the number of albums that I haven't bought; whether or not I've listened to them doesn't have any financial effect on the artist.
"with three federal agencies all coming to the same conclusion that no laws were broken, it's pretty bizarre to see people still freaking out about this."
While I doubt Google did anything wrong in this case, I don't understand what the legality of their actions has to do with that. How long has the federal government been trustworthy?
As you say, people who chip in on a thousand dollar project after it's got millions of dollars in funds probably aren't thinking that the project needs their money to succeed. My guess is that video games and technology just draw fans in greater clumps than music does. Lots of people want music, even more so than video games if the total money raised is any indication, but there'll be more people who want that particular video game than that particular album. Music fans are spread out across the medium, while video game fans are far more likely to gravitate towards a Wasteland or Shadowrun.
I don't get this "analog" business that all these old people are going on about. Just a couple months ago my grandfather told me that he'd sent me a "birthday card" in the "mail", but when I checked my inbox nothing of the sort was there. I asked him about it, and he said "mail" can't be accessed by a computer; it's found a physical storage unit called a "mailbox". So I went outside to check our mailbox, and when I didn't find anything he said that he'd sent it to my dorm. Apparently this mail stuff is also region-locked, and I can only get to it from one particular mailbox. Ridiculous, right? Then, when I told him as much and that it would never catch on, he just laughed like he thought I was joking! I don't know how old people handle this stuff; it's all very confusing.
If this was about bias, no one here would be coming down on the side of Ubisoft. The fact is that the concepts allegedly copied from the book are not novel, and we don't need a court to tell us that, no matter how little the guy is.
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No, the data we have is that 62% of albums were acquired without payment. That does not necessarily translate to 62% of fans getting it without payment. For one thing, a person can download an album and then buy it if they like it, contributing to both slices of the pie chart. Then there's the people who hadn't heard of the band before, and so at the time of downloading could not be considered fans.
And even discounting those, you're still getting mad at the fact that that number of people didn't buy the album. I can't begin to count the number of albums that I haven't bought; whether or not I've listened to them doesn't have any financial effect on the artist.
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No, we're talking like no one needs to put a lot of effort into eliminating piracy in order to take advantage of the internet.
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While I doubt Google did anything wrong in this case, I don't understand what the legality of their actions has to do with that. How long has the federal government been trustworthy?
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Really? None at all?
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Oh, good, a particular claim that's easily testable. Very well, let's see where this goes in a week.
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That's an old saying. We need to find a new one.
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