Thread: High Court orders British ISPs to block "The Pirate Bay"
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Old 05-07-2012, 07:51 AM   #259
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Originally Posted by HansTWN View Post
No, piracy is buying (getting) the product without paying.
How would they know the difference between people pirating it and people doing without or buying an alternative product instead? All they would have to go on is the previous year's sales figures, and it would be very easy to just blame piracy for everything and carry on as normal.

I still see writers complaining about piracy being the reason for their lack of sales, despite Amazon (and others) reporting record sales of ebooks. What excuse will they use when they get what they want, an instant kill switch on any website they don't like?
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