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Originally Posted by Alisa
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.
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But that is only a correlation. The important factor is when you read a book that you have downloaded illegally instead of reading a bought copy. So morally it is very hard to motivate that the actual downloading is a problem by trying to refer to lost income.
And if you try to oversimplify the arguments people will find them strange and not respect them.