A Copyfighter’s Musings

James DeLong really knows how to put things in perspective, so long as you set aside the tortured economic reasoning (e.g., how are the shopping carts suddenly non-rivalrous?).  Shopping cart theft is clearly a serious problem. In various lectures, JZ has pointed out that shopping cart theft costs retailers 800 million dollars per year – I can’t find an article supports that figure right now, but Wikipedia has the same number. Meanwhile, US music sales declined a mere ~$400 million last year, which doesn’t include the revenue gained from digital sales.  I expect DeLong will soon redouble his efforts to stop the menace of offline shopping cart piracy.

Filed by Derek Slater at 7:10 pm under General news
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