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Grimsley t1_jd3hthd wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Book publishers with surging profits struggle to prove Internet Archive hurt sales by soboi12345

Easier to simply say, correlation does not imply causation.

Same thing with pirating video games or movies or anything else. Can't prove that person would have actually gone out and bought the product legitimately.

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archontwo t1_jd6z2x8 wrote

There was an interesting study done by a large fashion house on the cheap knock off handbags and how they affected sales. They spent millions of dollars to find out that the people who bought knock off bags at a flea market for $50, where not the same people who payed for a $5000 bag from Louis Vitton or some such.

Imagine that!

It was part of a TED talk a few years back by Johanna Blakely

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[deleted] t1_jd3iwe4 wrote

But you can't prove that they wouldn't have either, and again, it's not really relevant as far as IP law is concerned.

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Grimsley t1_jd3mj75 wrote

Sure, but the onus is on the accuser to prove the damages.

As far as IP law, I can't even really speak on any of that because I personally have no idea about it.

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[deleted] t1_jd3p7s8 wrote

Yes, but the specific case against internet archive isn't really alleging damages (from my understanding) but centers around the fact that they are (allegedly) illegally copying and distributing copyrighted material.

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