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Originally Posted by sbroome
The word is "know" and you're still wrong.
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About what? You seem to say that losing the pirates as readers doesn't affect the bottom line of the authors because they aren't paying for what they consume. You are ignoring the fact that research shows that they are still buying content, so losing them as readers does actually affect the authors as well as the fact that library patrons are doing the same thing.
You can go to the point of view that even if they spend money on some content, the money won't necessarily be spent on the content from the same author that they pirated so that author still presents a loss. But you have the same effect with freebies and PD books.