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Old 11-16-2011, 06:28 PM   #147
ScalyFreak
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By willfully preventing the author from making as large a profit as would have been made without my giveaway they would be stealing those profits just as surely as if they had taken that money out of his wallet.
This is true only if you assume that everyone who accepts a free copy would have purchased the book if they had not been offered it for free, and that is not the case. For the vast majority of pirates of any media they get it for free or they don't get it at all. The thought "I like this a lot, should I buy it or torrent it?" never enters their mind. The closest they get is, "hm, I like this, should I bother torrent it, or go do something else and forget about it?"
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