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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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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I know that are people pirating my software is that I see it posted on Usenet binaries groups, pirated CD offered for sale on eBay, etc., and the times that I can do anything about it are few and far between. There are some particularly brainless ones that you can take action against, but such victories are rare.