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Originally Posted by slayda
So no a single pirated book (DLed only once) does not represent a "significant" pain to the author but multiply that by 1000 - 1,000,000 and it is very painful.  |
Only if those million downloaded copies translate into the loss of a million actual books sold. I've downloaded plenty of crud off of the internet simply because it was available, not because I would have bought it otherwise. This is exactly the false "profit loss" projection that the RIAA and MPAA are so fond of.
As for why I would want to download crud, I am a fisherman of the net. I'm a data junkie. I'm an idiot.