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"the compulsive collectors who download and re-share without ever reading one"
That's an interesting phenomenon because those kinds of people don't really count as 'lost sales'. When there is an abundance of resources (ebooks, mp3s etc), people who don't really 'want' the material and would never pay for it still collect it. The rush they feel for getting something which society places value on for free is some kind of psychological rush.
I should know, I used to download/collect movies for that reason. Lots of the films I would never watch, I'd just burn them to DVD so 'one day' I could watch them. End result, a few hundred DVDs covered in dust, unwatched. Now you can buy a movie from itunes very easily, and I cant be bothered downloading some crappy quality CAM version of a movie. I just wait and get it in 1080p direct to computer. I also don't collect/save movies now because I know in 10 years time we will have fibre to home, we will be able to buy media at very cheap prices and a full movie will download in 30 seconds.
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