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Originally Posted by Beryll Snyder
The situation seems to be at least a little bit more complicated.
If I take something from someone, I have that thing and someone else is missing it.
In the case of digital copies the situation is completey different.
You could make the case that you lose actually something, namely income.
But that happens only, if the user would have paid you in the first place.
Demand at the price of $ 0 is certainly higher than at a higher price.
So I think it would be pretty difficult to proof empirically the amount - if any -loss you might have suffered from "stolen" digital copies.
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So if you have a kid over to mow your lawn and afterwards you give him a pat on the back and say "hey, I would never have asked you to do it if I had to pay you for it" that is ok? After all, you have taken nothing from him, he still has everything he had before.