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While I think the sense of entitlement is ethically wrong, I do have a hard time seeing piracy as "lost sales." Have there been instances where piracy has been reduced and suddenly the sales have gone up?
I can't see frequenters of pirate sites suddenly putting the things on their 'to buy' list. Last year I had a conversation with someone who claimed to download a terrabyte of digital material a month. I wonder how he has time to consume it all, let alone, if he couldn't do it any more, would he start buying said material?
I borrow books from the library all the time and will likely never buy them. If libraries suddenly vanished from existence, I wouldn't suddenly be motivated to go spend hundreds of dollars on books to purchase.
(However, I have actually bought books whereby I have enjoyed the experience of reading them so much that I had to have my own copy and give the author their share). I would buy what I could afford and just shrug my shoulders at the rest.
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