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Originally Posted by HarryT
Well of course any pirate is going to come out with the lame excuse "but I wouldn't have bought it". I'm afraid I find it rather difficult to accept the word of someone who's just demonstrated their fundamental dishonesty by illegally downloading in the first place. Someone like that is unlikely to have any qualms about lying.
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What if it's true? It doesn't seem far-fetched to me. Though, actually, I saw some studies that indicate that people who pirate media also buy more media than the average person, which also makes sense to me. My guess is that the vast majority of "pirates" buy the type of media they also "pirate". Those who genuinely never buy anything are probably an extreme minority. I don' feel they matter from an economical point of view.
The issue is really two-fold: there's the moral aspect (which is individual and has many different sides, some of which I touched on in the previous post), and the legal aspect (which is more objective). Legally, by downloading he violates the same law that one violates by removing DRM from e-books. I don't feel that this makes the vast majority of us here at MR "fundamentally dishonest". Legally, though, there is no difference.
It's not a stone I'll throw.