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Yeah, these numbers are always very dishonest. There's no accounting for * People who were never planning to buy, including people who just plain could not aff
by bluefirebrand 3y ago
Yeah, these numbers are always very dishonest. There's no accounting for
* People who were never planning to buy, including people who just plain could not afford to buy if they wanted to.
* People who bought after pirating
* People who pirated something that was not available anywhere to purchase in their region
It's basically impossible to account for all of these different reasons, but arguably none of those were really ever going to contribute the money.
Besides, people have no moral duty to support the US economy.
- Freak_NL 3y ago* People who just hoard media. There are many people who will download anything within a given set of parameters and only ever watch a fraction of it. It's a form of local digital library building.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoYeah, that's true too. Basically mass data archiving, which is actually a super valuable service to society if we want to have any hope of keeping less popular digital information alive for the future.