Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 18th:

• Study: Piracy Does Not Deter the Production of Music, Films, Books – Interesting information from a decent sample-size. Certainly didn’t take a study to know that every download does not equate to a lost purchase. Only someone with an agenda or a complete ignoramus would espouse such a position. This would mean that every radio listen of a popular song led to a lost sale and of course the causality in that model is exactly opposite. Hear it, then buy it. Certainly there is some population of people that follow the model of “hear it enough to buy it, but download instead”, but what is that number? How many of those “hear it enough to buy it” folks turn into non-buyers when actually in the store and confronted with the price tag and alternate uses for their funds? Aside from a very difficult to execute study, there’s no way to know. However, the fact that both the CD and movie content pie continues to grow seems to put the lie to the RIAA’s and MPAA’s wolf-crying.