A) If you're going to do that sort of thing, never charge money. B) It saddens me to see governments defending sales that were never a given in the first place

A) If you're going to do that sort of thing, never charge money. B) It saddens me to see governments defending sales that were never a given in the first place. Theoretical profits are not profits. They are wishful thinking. No IP holder is entitled to anything remotely anything resembling "hypothetical profits".