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Re-read the initial post, Nathanael. This thread is not about whether it's legal or moral to pirate ebooks, it's about "how many people who download pirated ebooks actually read them and how many would have bought them in different circumstances." That last part is the key for me: there does seem to be MANY people who would have bought them in different circumstances, and that is all some of us are trying to point out to you.
For example, as I said on more than one occasion, I do pay for my book purchases. I don't download from the darknet. And if I feel a book is too expensive, I don't buy it, or I buy something else. But that doesn't mean I am---or should be---happy with the status quo, as a book-lover, and as someone who *would have bought* but for XYZ. It is not so simple to say 'if you don't like the prices, don't buy' when there are other factors at work here such as people who *can't* buy because the publishers don't allow them to but would have bought absent this restriction. This is the kind of thing people like me are advocating for.
The question was not on the legality or morality of it. It was about whether people are downloading from other sources who would have otherwise bought.
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