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by Kye 2277 days ago
Such is the risk of absolutes...

>> "nobody is arguing that there’d be a 100% purchase rate"

The typical case against things like this does multiply downloads by sale price under the assumption each one is a lost sale. I've seen authors (obscure and prominent) scream about how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they're missing out on because they found their book on some torrent site.