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Originally Posted by PKFFW
The dishonesty of pollsters, of course, also applies to those who claim the following.....
1: I would never have bought it anyway so it's not a lost sale.
2: I just download heaps of stuff I never intend to read/listen to.
3: I plan on buying a legit copy if I like it.
4: I plan on donating to the author/singer in the future if I like their stuff.
5: I wll start buying stuff once they get rid of DRM/geo restrictions/etc.
All the above may very well be true or they may very well be total crap. Yet many seem to accpet such statements without question.
Cheers,
PKFFW
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I was thinking about point 1 yesterday, although more from the point of view of claiming that one should not equate piracy rates with lost sales. Whilst I agree the relationship is nowhere near one to one, it seems to me that even if somebody would genuinely never have bought that *particular* product, in the vast majortiy of cases, they would still have spent money on *some* form of entertainment if illegally freeloading were not an available option.