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Originally Posted by SleepyBob
But the issue is more like: 10 people are going to spend money to buy 10 books. Would you rather:
A. 7 buy John's book and 3 buy Jeff's book, or
B. 5 of the people that were going to buy John's book saw it on a torrent, so they decided to download it and they buy Jeff's book instead (which didn't come up immediately in a torrent search). So now 2 buy John's book, 8 buy Jeff's book, and 5 copies of John's book got torrented.
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Or they could conclude that since Jeff's book isn't good enough to get pirated, it's not good enough to be read, but John's book is, so they go and buy his previous works. Since every study shows that people who download are more likely to spend money on what they are taking, this is the more likely scenario.