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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
You have no way of knowing whether the person would have bought the work if they had been unable to download it illegally. Therefore it is fair game to regard it as lost income.
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You have no way of knowing one way or the other. It's not fair game to assume it's lost income. That's the trap that the RIAA uses when they make up quotes about losing billions because of piracy.
At best you can regard it as a potential sale. Nobody knows how much real income there would have been.