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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
You're right: I wish I could depend on people to download something that I ask them to pay for, and actually see them pay for it. This is why stores place their cashiers before the exit... they know how much they'll lose if they put them out in the parking lot, and give their customers the choice of paying or not...
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Flashback: isn't this the business-model for share-ware?
I know that when I could afford it I decided to pay for these sharewhare programmes after years of "piracy" usage: anybody using ARJ, WinZip have the same experience? Funny that WinZip is still around :-)
The proof you asked for:
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (although the author encourages downloading I haven't got a copy. It gave a lot of publicity and might people get interested in the sequels