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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Your distinction between piracy and bootlegging in terms of what makes one right and the other wrong is artificial. You claim that only difference is that one makes money off someone else's work. However, in both cases, the author lost money. Just a question of how much money.
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No, the distinction is quite clear. The author will have lost money from piracy only if you can prove that the pirated copy would have been bought legally were it not available for free. Which of course it wouldn't have in the vast majority of cases. Your average pirate downloads dozens of music albums only to listen to some tracks once or twice and then forget about them completely. Most of these pirated tracks will not be played even once by the downloader. You can't seriously suggest these people would have actually paid hundreds or thousands of pounds for all these tracks (which they would then never even listen to) if they couldn't get them for free off the torrents.