madkiller on 23 February 2008
| Sky Render said: You have an interestingly idealistic view of it, twestern. It cannot be denied, however, that a great deal of pirates are chronic, meaning they refuse to pay for anything. And as we're discussing electronic data, there's no physical medium being stolen. Thus their thefts in particular ultimately have no impact on sales or inventory, since they really would not buy the product anyway and what they're stealing has no tangible existence. That doesn't mean they're right in what they do (they're not), nor does it make them somehow excusable pirates (they're definitely not; if anything, they're the worst of the lot), but it is a fact that you cannot lose a sale if it would never have been made in the first place. |
I could not have said it better myself.
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