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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 am no writer, musician, or in any other way affected by piracy. I am 100% on the other side of the fence.
The point is, how can you justify the downloader getting something for free? What has he or she done to deserve it? No matter what or if there is any damage, no matter if anyone notices it. What gives the downloader the right to just take what doesn't belong to him?
I am looking at it purely from the downloaders state of mind. How does he justify it? This is the important question. Forget what others are doing, who else did something wrong or immoral. The downloader had no book, song, movie before he downloaded. After "the act" he has a copy of something that costs money. How is this right?