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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have never received received a penny in compensation from all those Swiss citizen who are taking my software without paying for it. Should I be expecting a cheque from the Swiss government to arrive?
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Harry,
there is an important point which is ALWAYS forgotten by pro-copyright group. (I'm a software developer too, by the way)
The fact that someone has obtained your software illegally most of the time does NOT mean, that he/she would have payed for it, if he/she couldn't get it for free!
Normally people that get stuff "illegally" get a lot of it, then hardly use small subset. Look at number of jailbroken iPhones vs number of "stolen apps", "pirates" produce helluvalot traffic.
Overlooking this and drooling over mythical "lost sales" leads to witch hunt by various MAFIAAs that produces a lot of noise and wastes a lot of resources, most often leading to the opposite results (look at number of titles ruined by draconian DRM)