If this sounds just too crazy, you may have come to the wrong blog. Or are you willing to hear the inconvenient?
It fell to German researchers to find that illegal downloads don't make the assumed dent in music and movie sales.
Our friends from the RIAA and other orgs give different numbers, so we conclude that we don't know.
But we categorically claim that at least the Western societies may benefit more than they lose. We came to this conclusion having spent quite a bit of time around the euphemistically marginalized.
As long as kids can play the video games or watch the movies their parents could never afford, they have less time for bad behavior. The Freakonomics guys might have a field day with a study.
Hey, we could even see a day when Electronic Arts or other game giants get on the band wagon and hand out few thousand games to kids in the ghetto.
Tax deductible, with a TV crew to record the good deed for posterity.
Free video games have more appeal us bleeding hearts members of the kumbaya brigade than free guns.
Given the rates at which black kids in the US get killed or thrown into jail, the games would be perfect hand me downs to those next in line for seriously adverse life events.
This post was slow to take shape, but we lucked out exactly because of our sluggishness: we just read about an interview with an HBO director, and he confirms the "no dent in sales" claim, at least for the hit series "Game of Thrones".
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