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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
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.
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Absolutely
This is why the losses the entertainment, music and publishing industry so often quote are in fact a concocted pile of lies. They automatically and blatantly assume every download is a lost sale.
This is plainly not true at all. However they want the public, politicians AND the law makers to believe that. Unfortunately many believe this lie, in some cases aided by a little "inducement".
Those actual lost sales? Perhaps if prices were lowered and DRM/geographic restrictions were removed, that would reduce even further.