Thread: Confessions of a Book Pirate
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Old 02-01-2010, 03:34 PM   #225
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Originally Posted by Pardoz View Post
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.
Yes, one message on a single BB could not be used to draw any general conclusions. And that really is my point.

Just as people do not take the idea of "every download is a lost sale" seriously because there is no evidence for it, so should the idea that "most/lots of people just like to download for the sake of it and would never buy or read the books" be taken with a grain of salt.

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