Burek said:
But then maybe agricultural, automotive or construction industries can publish a report saying that software piracy is beneficial to their business - syphoning $75 billion away from gaming into housing, fast cars or seeing an increase in fruit and vegetable sales due to $60 saved for a game. So, in the end, while pirates steal away bread from software developers, they are feeding numerous construction and factory workers, and even helping migrants picking fruit feed their starving families in Honduras. Piracy is, therefore, great! |
It's more likely they spend that money on better internet, pc upgrades, storage media and electricity bills. Kinda ironic, PC pirates investing in better hardware, yet not paying the game industry to make games that use that better hardware.
They can spend that money too without pirating and save on all those extra costs, thus have even more to spend in other areas. And they'll have lot of time left over to do something useful ;)
Why not counterfeit money. Doesn't hurt anyone when only a few do it and you pump extra money in the economy. Nothing lost right?
Btw the money going to software developers will be spend on all those things you list as well. It's not lost, merely feeding extra mouths in between steps. Software developers don't burn money, they drive cars and eat food as well!