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by d0mine 5264 days ago
piracy != lost sale.

If you get 0 cents with piracy, you will get the same 0 cents without it.

2 comments

In case you missed this paragraph:

  "Piracy, for me is certainly not about not wanting to pay.
   It's about the feeling that the money I pay mostly doesn't
   go to creators, but to the companies in-between who doesn't
   deserve it. I don't want to support such an industry."
Paraphrased:

  "I want to pay, but the creators don't get most of the money.
   So rather than paying, I pirate instead."
This invalidates your argument.
It should be self-evident that not all people are like the author of the paragraph you cited.
It's also self-evident that I was replying to the person who wrote it, thus I made no claims about what "all people" do.

Besides which, your statement that "piracy != lost sale" is demonstrably false. You could have qualified your statement with "in some cases" or "for some people", but such a trivially true claim wouldn't add much to the discussion since the discussion is about what one person does.

Just because it's not a lost sale, that makes it right? It's right that some people have to pay for it and some don't (just because one would buy it and one wouldn't)?