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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
If someone downloads my work without paying for it, and would never have paid for it, what do I care? I wouldn't be made better off in that transaction if they hadn't downloaded it at all.
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Because you can never know whether or not that person would actually have paid for it. The old refrain of "but I wouldn't have bought it" is often heard, but is a person who downloads stuff illegally really likely to say anything else?