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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Do you have a link for the phase in quotation marks? I hope you aren't inventing a quotation to make people you disagree with look worse than they are.
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That was not a quote. It was a kind of summary. I don't know if you don't use quotation marks the same way where you live like we do over here. We don't only use them for quotes - so that might be why there was a misunderstanding. We would use them if we wanted to say that the "car" was not actually what we'd call a car... or like I did, to show that someone didn't actually say it exactly like that (a bit confusing, maybe... I'm just so used to it, I didn't think someone could misread it for a "real" quotation).
If it's really a quote (and not a quote obviously from the thread/already menationed by whom it was but from somewhere else), we would add who said it. Like "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Albert Einstein or (Albert Einstein)
What I meant to say was: It's not true that "all pirates never pay for anything". And people who said "lots of pirates are known for buying more of the same kind of media as people not pirating the media in question" doesn't mean they approve of piracy. Just that it's not true that "all pirates never pay for anything".
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Even if you do come back with a citation for your quote, I don't see the big issue. If someone appropriated my property without payment or permission, I might well imply I had lost the retail value of my property, which was not strictly true. The fact that victims exaggerate their losses, while generally true, is normal and (assuming no insurance fraud) unremarkable with the one strange (to me) exception of piracy.
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I do actually think that exaggerating is an issue. If, for example, someone stole your watch and you would whine how they ruined your life by stealing all you ever had, your car, your house, your wife, you ereader, the food out of you childrens mouths... that will sound really ridiculous and will not help your case.
So if one industry blames all their sales declines on piracy and will not take other facts or possibilities into account, that will sound equally ridiculous.
Again, this is not "pro piracy". And I am sure piracy does harm certain people and/or companies/publishers, but not to the extend they make us want to believe and certainly not the whole industry or even economy...