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Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by honorabili

honorabili — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:36:26 +0000

Many companies don’t get that if some stuff (talking about video games) will not even get bought had it not been pirated before. Most people I know that do pirate stuff end up buying games so long as they were good in the first place. If they weren’t, should they have been in the market in the first place? Quality over quantity.

Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by catdgo

catdgo — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 07:44:45 +0000

poor argument.

after i steal a movie off the internet I don’t go out an buy it, nobody does…

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Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:22:19 +0000

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Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by Sean

Sean — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:58:46 +0000

Um, not to be a dick, but your graph doesn’t show 4chan boosting sales. It shows a huge boost in sales *before* it gets posted, followed by a DROP in sales. Did you label it wrong?

Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by David

David — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:26:35 +0000

I’m with Mr. Welch on this — so it worked for one guy in one isolated event. What would happen if every artist got his stuff pirated and leaked on 4chan, and responded positively? I sincerely doubt that every artist would see a similar spike in sales.

I suspect the sales the author saw came from sympathetic 4chan posters due to the unique reply from the author. However, if the reply becomes commonplace, the sympathy dies and with it the sales.

Kudos to the author for taking advantage of the situation, but in the end piracy is still going to hurt artists.

That being said, I also agree with Mr. Watson in that how an artist deals with the fact of piracy can affect the overall outcome positively. The trick will be finding creative and new ways in the future to deal with it.

Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by Jonathan Grimwauld

Jonathan Grimwauld — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:39:30 +0000

Yep, that’s the life of creativity.
Performance is king – connecting with people so you’re no longer faceless media drone is muyo importante.

Kinda counter-intuitive. It’s how my bud’s band failed. they refused to play to the crowd, and so the crowd didn’t like’em anymore.

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Corsari da fumetti « YBlog — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:26:02 +0000

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Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by Comic Book ‘Pirated’ On 4Chan, Author Joins Discussion… Watches Sales Soar

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:38:00 +0000

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Twitted by Coffeeicus — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:31:31 +0000

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Comment on Piracy trumps obscurity again by Generation D is for Disruption | The Alphaville Herald

Generation D is for Disruption | The Alphaville Herald — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:16:37 +0000

[...] make this point crystal clear, Steve Lieber, discovered that the good folks at 4chan had scanned and uploaded every single page of his comic book Underground – from a Twitter message. But instead of [...]