Kaj_Sotala comments on October Monthly Bragging Thread - Less Wrong

10 Post author: linkhyrule5 04 October 2013 07:06AM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 06 October 2013 11:03:05AM 3 points [-]

Nice piece. I wrote a somewhat similar one some years back, with the spin that illegal file sharing only made the inevitable happen earlier - that even if people hadn't been illegally copying things, it would only have been a matter of time before new entrants would have started selling their products at such low prices that the more established companies would have been forced to follow suit.

Comment author: David_Gerard 06 October 2013 02:40:12PM *  0 points [-]

Yeah. My key points were (1) massive oversupply (2) basic microeconomics, and a bit of (3) most people aren't record nerds. I was disconcerted at just how many of these people who'd been working musicians for decades apparently didn't understand (2) at all.