Go, Read: Longish David Harper Piece On Download Sites

Very little seems to have changed in terms of illegal download sites and comics except maybe the context. There are options that in terms of serviceability and cost seem to have become an option for a type of consumer that wants those options and doesn't mind paying for them. The numbers suggest a hydra-type situation in that the download consumers that may use legal options have been replaced or are utilizing both methods.

Harper makes a necessary distinction between sales that are lost and markets that remain cultivated, a model that more logically represents the market attitudes on display. One thing that's stayed the same is that there's an assumption that this is an issue best examined in terms of its financial losses and potential benefits, as opposed to a creator's rights issue. As a sub-culture and wider culture, we seem increasingly comfortable doing market analyses of things that may not be best processed that way.
 
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