EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to hihi
Re: Losing customers
Theoretically, if you pirate something that you wouldn't have paid for you've hurt no one... Indeed, in such a situation no one is worse off: you get whatever marginal enjoyment the pirated product gives, and the record company wasn't going to get your money anyway.
The problem with this is that there's really no way to prove that you wouldn't have paid for it if piracy wasn't possible, because if you would have paid for it, then the record company is worse off, the infamous "lost sales" numbers are almost certainly overblown, but aren't $0 either... |
