In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)
This google search[0] will provide a list of interesting papers about piracy.<p>They seem generally to support what I think is something like the majority consensus here:<p>- piracy does some harm to sales, especially of new books, but can increase consumer knowledge and therefor increase diversity of sales and sales of older works: &quot;effect of piracy is heterogeneous: piracy decreased the
legitimate sales of ongoing comics, whereas increased the legitimate sales of completed comics. The latter result is interpreted as follows: piracy reminds consumers of past comics and stimulates sales in that market.&quot; [1]<p>- piracy does considerable harm to large institutes (but largely seen as a good thing)<p>- for sales, a lot of the lost revenue seems to be made up for &quot;increases the demand for complements to protected works, raising, for instance, the demand for concerts and concert prices&quot;<p>- that DRM creates fake scarcity where none should exist-- distribution costs are now zero, we shouldn&#x27;t pretend that we still need to pay so much for books and music<p>- how to make sure artists still have a revenue stream needed to exist is definitely still a problem, but it is not one that is solved by crushing pirate libraries<p>Also further discussion here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33460970" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33460970</a> (517 comments, recent)<p>And, to the person down below who wants to help out, check out the further discussion here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=annas-blog.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;from?site=annas-blog.org</a> (&gt;1000 comments over six submissions)<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site:gwern.net+piracy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=site:gwern.net+piracy</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;economics&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;2019-tanaka.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;economics&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;2019-tanaka.p...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;economics&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;2010-oberholzergee.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gwern.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;economics&#x2F;copyright&#x2F;2010-oberholz...</a><p>EDIT: formatting