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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Home burglaries have measurable costs of personal safety and psychology beyond the financial value of the items stolen or damaged. I've yet to see compelling evidence that the same applies to piracy.
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What are these "measurable costs" of personal safety and psychology? How much are they worth? At what price is investigating burglary too expensive? $1,000? $10,000?
In fact, these claims *are not* measurable at all. Which of course doesn't mean that they aren't real, it just points out that trying to add up monetary costs of enforcement vs. monetary costs of crime doesn't work.
And I would imagine people who have had their hard work stolen and offered for free might feel differently about the costs of piracy than someone who is not a victim.