Correct. Piracy results in a market dynamic where even a strong second player can't win from the market leader, and pushes software markets to monopolies. Comp

Correct. Piracy results in a market dynamic where even a strong second player can't win from the market leader, and pushes software markets to monopolies. Companies like MS and Adobe know this. They have to perform regular anti pitacy charades, but they vastly prefer someone pirating -a potential future buy- to someone buying an alternative - an actual lost sale. Same dynamic in hollywood: Pirating a film is vastly better for them than finding alternative hobbies and not buying the series merchandise.