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Originally Posted by HarryT
That is a morally bankrupt argument. It's like saying that nothing is lost if you sneak into the cinema without paying, or nothing is lost if you get on a train without a ticket. In all these activities, you are taking advantage of the fact that the content or service has been created for people who do pay.
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While that's true. The fact is that a pirated copy is not equal to a lost sale. I'm not justifying pirating in any way, but the publishing/music/software industry are quick to suck out figures that pirating has cost the economy $x billions of dollars in lost sales. That's not true. The vast majority of pirates would never buy the content they are pirating in any case so no revenue is lost as such.
A moral/ethical cost is a whole different ballgame.