>> ^mxxcon:

A perfect video that needs some of that youtube video stabilization. I felt like my eyes would leak out.


No, no and more no.

Youtube stabilisation does nothing but make the video all wavey and weird. Say no to stabilisation, NO!

@dgandhi

Okay, nowhere in there did I see the sort of correlation you are suggesting. In fact, if anything, I saw a decrease in CD sales coupled with an increase in piracy. Sure, he added a bunch of hand-wavey explanations for this that fit your model, but none of them were what I'd call properly "evidence-based."

With regards to your first assertion, it's been conceded. As I pointed out, nobody, including the industry, expects such a correlation to exist. Both piracy and profitability are correlated with quality, and thus you would clearly expect a positive correlation between the two. However, were you able to independently control for the quality of the content in question (i.e. not basing your quality metric on level of piracy, or sales), you might be able to see an inverse "partial correlation." Who knows, it might go the other way too. All I meant by my post is that the inverse correlation you are looking for is unlikely to exist without first controlling for quality (which is likely intractable). Further, the existence of a positive correlation between the two variables is not evidence that "piracy increases profits" for the reasons I've pointed out. The prior is that such a positive correlation should exist, even in a world in which piracy decreases profits.

I was not claiming to have access to the data, nor direct evidence. Simply adding commentary on what proper evidence would look like. Sorry to hear about your legal troubles.