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Originally Posted by tompe
That is not true. That is like saying that not buying a book is stealing a livelihood. Since most of the downloading is done of thing that was not going to be bought in the first case you cannot equate one download with a lost sale.
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It's not a one-to-one relationship when you try to calculate the loss by looking at how many copies of a work were downloaded. However, as an individual if you are downloading stuff, you probably have a good idea how much of that you likely would have bought. It's not one-to-one but it's not insignificant.