From: Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: Re: [H] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al. v. Grokster,Ltd.,
et al.
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 16:13:27 -0300
At 03:59 PM 06/07/2005, Hayes Elkins wrote:
So a man who spends $50,000 to create an instructional video to sell on
his website all of the sudden has his video is put on p2p and completely
kills his sales (as evidenced by downloads from various BT trackers and
the sales of prior video releases), forcing him to mortgage his house to
make ends meet - this is not injustice?
Here's another thought on this: Did he really lose $50,000 due to P2P, or
was he priced out of the market and never would have sold enough to cover
costs to begin with? People blame business failures on all sorts of things
- sometimes they're right, and sometimes it's just a scapegoat. I'm not
sure which it is in this case.
T
Judging by the BT tracker statistics (amount of times the rip was
downloaded) and prior sales of his series, yes I would say he lost close to
that from P2P leeches.
