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depriving one of potential profits is certainly a form of theft.

• mmastrac 4y ago
  You're describing competition
  • ls15 4y ago
    Or taxes
• jerojero 4y ago
  Potential profit? If the price is not low enough to encourage this person to buy the product then you have a different problem. Digital goods manufacturers can't simply price their goods without considering the ease of access that people have to these. Well, in reality, they do consider it. It is why PC games for example tend to be much cheaper and go on sale much more often than console games. It hasn't really stopped the PC gaming market from growing every year though. Piracy is a pricing problem, not a theft problem. Just look at streaming services. Also, you might be thinking of immediate profits but most of these businesses rely on much longer lifecycles. A child might pirate game 1 when they are 13 and then when they are 17 and have their first job they might buy game 2 on a sale (from the same companyl and when they are adults will keep buying the newly released games because they have been converted. This is the case for many. Don't be silly and reduce complex issues to simple phrases.
• krageon 4y ago
  If you're not going to buy (or rent as it would be), there are no potential profits. This is an angle corporations use to subvert your thinking into the idea that you would have given them money in the first place.
• account42 4y ago
  Then please send me $1000000 because since you could potentially do it then depriving me of that money is theft.