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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Okay, I might as well say here and now that this has never sat well with me. The statement that a person who pirated a book "would never, ever buy it" doesn't change the fact that he has it now... that makes it a copy that has not been paid for, and therefore, a lost sale caused by theft.
In much the same way as a man plucks an apple from an orchard, it doesn't matter whether he eats it, throws it away, or gives it to a horse: The fact is, he took it, and that makes it a lost sale through theft. The fact that he says he wouldn't have paid for it is immaterial to the fact that he took it.
By that logic, I dismiss the "It isn't a lost sale" rhetoric as specious. It's just another way to excuse theft.
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So if a 12 year old kid with maybe $100 to his name downloads 20,000 MP3's to his ipod did the music industry lose $20,000 in sales. People are not trying to trivialize it, they're just tired of the numbers being inflated.