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Originally Posted by leebase
How is that really relevant? If you steal food, but don't eat ALL of it, throw some (or even most) of it out -- are you less a theif?
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I think it's relevant in that the discussion wasn't really about the definition of the word
thief. It was about accounting for lost sales. Whether or not the person fits the definition of the word
thief, the question remains as to whether or not they would have fit the definition of the word
customer had the pirate version not been available.
One ancillary subject for the marketing crowd to examine is the question of how willing one would be to
become a customer of someone who is busy calling him a thief, because it's in the market's best interest to lure folks away from the darknet.