Every producer says I'm losing 100s of downloads to pirates. Well a person is more inclined to take something if its offered free. Of all these ppl that download the clip perhaps only 25 of them might have been willing to buy the clip, the other 75 might have just taken it because it was free and they could (as in they would never have bought the clip to begin with). So yes pirating does hurt the producer but the number of downloads does not actually reflect the potential loss of sales.They have done studies relating to the Record/Movie Industry and have found that people that Pirate music/movies are also the very same people who buy the most music and movies.
(one of many links to articles talking about this type of thing)
torrentfreak.com/why-pirates-buy-more-music-and-music-labels-fail-090428/
Now say I see a model on a site I might rate her 6/10 in my mind. I decide that I do not want to spend the money on the clip because I'm just not that into her. A few weeks later I see the same clip hosted somewhere on the net. I DL the clip to check it out... yes that's stealing, but I would never have bought the clip anyway. The next day I see a new clip on the same site it's a 10/10 girl, I pay to DL the clip because I like it.
When pirates host material that has just come out is when it harms producers the most. The life of a SF producer has never been easy and it wont be until somebody invents a digital media format that is able identify who purchased the clip.
Piracy is hardly the only factor involved in the decline of the SF production but it is easy for folks to point the finger at the pirates and scream "Burn THEM".
Now as for myself I have done my fair share of purchases over the years and I have done my share of pirating. I'm talking thousands of dollars of purchases too. The simple fact remains that of the stuff I pirated I prob would never have bought most of it to begin with.
I get sick of always seeing ppl look at things from 1 angle.
