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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
...Just because you're only interested in the "piracy aspect" doesn't mean you should get to cherry-pick who goes in the "non-pirate" category you're comparing to..
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How else to make a poll about the piracy aspect, than eliminating the other aspects from the equation?
Yes, if we would decide to use "number of books" as the base of comparison, freebies would have to count. They might be even a bigger portion than the bought ones.
But, my rationale:
- Pirates do it, to either safe money themselves (not buying stuff) or even making a profit (selling pirated stuff).
- Pirates sideload.
- So, to what compare the sideloads of pirates? To me, for comparison the group pirates avoid, namely the bought stuff, makes most sense. Pirates, for example might sideload freebies as well. Maybe they simply don't care, but batch-download and sideload whatever they have. Then I would have to equate the freebies of the pirates to the freebies of the none-pirates.
But "bought" vs. "pirated" is a (the only one) airtight distinction.