>While I can understand the frustration it's not really lost sales, it's just purchases that never would have been made in the first place. This is really spli

>While I can understand the frustration it's not really lost sales, it's just purchases that never would have been made in the first place. This is really splitting hairs. Yes, I acknowledge that it wasn't _just_ piracy that caused the company to shut its doors. But to say that I can't be frustrated about people using the results of my work for free? In what other industry is it acceptable to say, "Yes, we like your product, but no, we're not going to pay, and if you try to make us pay we're going to throw our toys out of the pram about how evil the software developers are!" That's taking it to a whole new level, and that's really the point I was responding to.