Thread: Confessions of a Book Pirate
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Old 02-01-2010, 10:56 AM   #216
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I wouldn't be surprised if the percentage is marginally higher. If my experience, and the experience of those I am familiar with, is anything to go by, I would be very surprised if this increase was enough to be of any statistical significance.
Our experiences differ - I recall seeing a post on an online message board from somebody proudly announcing that his collection of cracked games and software now exceeded a gigabyte in size.

Which doesn't sound terribly impressive, until you realize that the post was on a dial-up bulletin board, and he'd worked out the gigabyte estimate by counting the number of 1.44 meg and 720k floppies he had by his computer.

An extreme case, of course, and not one that one can draw general conclusions from (other than the possibility that the fellow might have benefited from psychiatric attention).

One of the (many) things that make this discussion futile is the shortage of anything other than anecdotal experience.
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