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Originally Posted by HansTWN
So if you go to work and your employer doesn't pay you, he spends your salary for 2012 buying a new car, would you be ok with that? After all, the money isn't lost in a general sense...
And if you use your line of reasoning, then theft of physical goods is actually great for the economy. Someone steals your e-reading device. He now doesn't need to spend money to buy one and can spend his money on other things. And you have to buy a new one. I see a win-win here!
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To me and you it does matters, to other tax payers in general it doesn't. Loss of physical goods is loss material and manufacturing costs, which is different.
If someone downloads and copies your IP, you loss potential sale. Tax payers generaly won't lose anything, money is just spend in other ways.