Nope, he is saying that if less people decided to pirate the game ( for whatever reason, be it price, quality or another reason) more copies would be sold..

That seem to be like he's establishing a clear relation between the number of pirated copies and the number of copies sold..........

You're are both saying that under different conditions the number of pirated copies and the number of sold copies would evolve differently.

What if the condition was : ' it's not possible to pirate a given game. Would that condition affect the number of copies sold ? you betcha, following your reasonning.

So you are both establishing a relation between sales and piracy level that  Vlad has been hammering for months does not exist.....

No you are not getting this at all. You can't take a hypothetical scenario completely different from the original then apply it to the original.

Your hypothetical scenario is that developer release games that fit the value of their price and make it as convinient to obtain as a torrent copy. That right there would be the case where piracy would be be hurtful to the industry.

Saying that piracy hurts the industry in its current state because of the conclusion above  is absolutely wrong. Those 3 million people would not have bought the game at the given quality/price and inconvience, and hence they pirate. That means that developers should see the numbers, and try to service the pirates so they can get sales out of them. For every 1000 pirates stopped there is 1 person who buys the game, or so studies say. To stop piracy they need to to make their products worth what they are asking for, and to make it convinient to obtain.

That isn't a clear relation between the number of pirated copies and the number of sold copies at all.

Afterall, he's saying if something chagned.  IE, Price or Quality.

Not "If piracy stopped."

If it was a better game more people who didn't pirate the game would sell it.  The same is true with it was cheaper.  However by studying your piracy vs sales numbers... it can tell you a LOT about the product.

That is true, but it's an effect of what I said.

Better quality/cost + convinience -> more sales -> less piracy.

What you are trying to imply i:

less piracy -> more sales.

Which is absolutely faulty.

Not really , you and Vlad are both saying that those pirates under different conditions could be potential buyers...

So if piracy was not possible isn't it reasonnable to consider that some of those pirates could translate as buyers ?

It seems so to me. So just by its existence, piracy does indeed affect sales....

There is a study that shows that for every 1000 stopped pirates, only 1 sale is made. You assume the sale is not made because of piracy. When in fact the sale is not made because of the quality/price and convinience, and piracy follows from that.

You are saying that quality of a game and it's price have effect on the piracy level of a game...

I'm saying that the fact that a game can be pirated has an effect too. And you will be hard pressed to argue about this. 

If it can't be pirated, piracy level = 0...

Yes except that would mean that if piracy level = 0, then sales would be even larger, which you cannot show me at all. Again, the US and Netherlands have both said that they can't say that piracy actually affects sales, and that if they do it's a minimal amount.

Lets say piracy is made impossible tomorrow...

What are you going to do ?

Stop gaming ?

Or buy some games...

PS : I already answered your study, yes if Gas was free I would have more money to spend on some other products, that does not demonstrate anything at all...........

Buy the same games I would have bought even when piracy existed, and not even bother with the rest. Actually I'd miss on some amazing games, cause I sure as hell wouldn't have bought games like World of Goo and Machinarium. I doubt most pirates would magically start buying games either. I doubt the people in poor countries will start buying games, or the people who think that games are not worth the money will magically start buying games.

P.S. Except that you'd have spent the money on gas somewhere else. Meanwhile they stated that piracy increased the amount of money one would have spent by getting people to buy related products, not just substitute X for Y.