The blessings of product piracy

On Monday, a national committee against product piracy was officially founded in Hungary. Péter N. Nagy endorses the prosecution of counterfeiters and fakes in principle, but wonders whether the pros might not outweigh the cons in certain sectors: "Am I supposed to be sorry that music exchange platforms and CD pirates are making Hollywood poorer? Should I keep my fingers crossed for the free downloading of music to be stemmed? Naturally, production companies and musicians are being cheated out of their money, but don't the benefits that this free access to music history provides for countless people cancel the damages? In this way music and film gain in value, whereby the resulting gains don't necessarily take the form of money and don't turn up in the usual places, but are certainly somewhere."

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