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Originally Posted by sabredog
Delusional? Nope. I intensely dislike lying hypocrites and Bullshiteing about EVERY download is a lost sale does not come close to being part of a percentage of.
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I don't like lying hypocrites either. But I think it's *just as* dishonest to claim that illegal downloads cause no harm is it is to claim that every download is a lost sale.
And I don't like how people have translated the "not every download is a lost sale" into "stealing is okay." Knowing that every download is not a lost sale is important in trying to figure out the impact of piracy, but it doesn't make piracy a moral act. Nor does the fact that pirates buy more music - for one, that doesn't help me when they steal *my* book...and for another, they might spend *even more* if they didn't pirate.
If the crime were the somewhat similar theft of cable services, I doubt that anyone would be claiming that it was okay because these people would never have subscribed to cable anyway. So I don't see how this somehow makes stealing software, music, books, etc. that you don't own a moral act.