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Originally Posted by Ekaros
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.
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In both cases, theft of physical goods or copyright infringement you can argue that the net result for society is no gain or no loss. In both cases tax payers only pay for the law enforcement effort (if there is any). A physical good passes on to someone else, for an illegal download you spend the money on something else. The net effect is always zero for society. So what is your point?