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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It's like people who pirate Microsoft Office, and say "but I would never have bought it full price, so pirating it doesn't affect their sales". Their action affects the sales of other, cheaper, alternative software.
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MicroSoft didn't lose a sale, but LibreOffice lost a downloader? Now, that is logic I can understand.
Unfortunately, that only applies if there is a vialb ealternative to MS Office. If there wasn't, as is the case with most eBooks, then one pirated copy = one lost sale. That is, if you assume that if piracy was not an option the pirate would spend money. That is not the case.