Your post is a bit unclear to me, I'm not sure which side of the argument you're defending, but > every person who has used the product without paying for it i

Your post is a bit unclear to me, I'm not sure which side of the argument you're defending, but > every person who has used the product without paying for it is such a loss. No, because like you said, that implies that you'd have bought the product if pirating it wasn't possible. If I want to pirate a game but it's not available, I won't buy it either. > It is an argument to justify the thieves. I'm not justifying "theft" - or piracy in this case -, I'm just saying that you can't equate the two. Piracy and theft are two very different things, with different motives, and different consequences of the distributor.