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howyoudoin · 03-08-2012, 07:22 AM

Yeah, the folly of ascribing gains significantly to a decline in piracy is that old convenient assumption that any instance of piracy is necessarily a lost sale, and the equally fallacious corollary attempted here that a thwarted attempt at piracy necessarily converts into a legitimate sale from a legitimate source. The mind does indeed infer what one wants to infer.

03-08-2012, 07:22 AM	#7
howyoudoin how YOU doin? Posts: 1,100 Karma: 7371047 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: India Device: Kindle Keyboard, iPad Pro 10.5”, Kobo Aura H2O, Kobo Libra 2	Yeah, the folly of ascribing gains significantly to a decline in piracy is that old convenient assumption that any instance of piracy is necessarily a lost sale, and the equally fallacious corollary attempted here that a thwarted attempt at piracy necessarily converts into a legitimate sale from a legitimate source. The mind does indeed infer what one wants to infer. Last edited by howyoudoin; 03-08-2012 at 07:25 AM.