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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
The anecdotal pirate who downloads thousands of books and reads none (the hoarding pirate) is not the typical pirate... therein lies the fallacy. The typical pirate downloads what titles they want to read, or if they download a bulk of titles, it is to get the few titles they actually want to read. These are the same people who will buy a title if it is not readily available on pirate sites, but is available conveniently or reasonably priced from legit sites.
The hoarding pirate is still indirectly connected to one-off downloaders, in that the hoarding pirate often makes their collection of downloads available to others who seek a book ("You're looking for Worldfarm One? I've got that one... here you go, no need to buy it."). These file distributions are often person-to-person, so they won't show up on anyone's server records.
And finally, any loss is a loss. Trying to reason it down to a low percentage doesn't alter the fact that an author is losing a sale, and that is significant even if it's just one.
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