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piracy != lost sale. If you get 0 cents with piracy, you will get the same 0 cents without it.

• biot 15y ago
  In case you missed this paragraph: "Piracy, for me is certainly not about not wanting to pay. It's about the feeling that the money I pay mostly doesn't go to creators, but to the companies in-between who doesn't deserve it. I don't want to support such an industry." Paraphrased: "I want to pay, but the creators don't get most of the money. So rather than paying, I pirate instead." This invalidates your argument.
  • d0mine 15y ago
    It should be self-evident that not all people are like the author of the paragraph you cited.
    • biot 15y ago
      It's also self-evident that I was replying to the person who wrote it, thus I made no claims about what "all people" do. Besides which, your statement that "piracy != lost sale" is demonstrably false. You could have qualified your statement with "in some cases" or "for some people", but such a trivially true claim wouldn't add much to the discussion since the discussion is about what one person does.
• lachyg 15y ago
  Just because it's not a lost sale, that makes it right? It's right that some people have to pay for it and some don't (just because one would buy it and one wouldn't)?