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Originally Posted by wootpr0n
Piracy doesn't cost any companies anything.
The people who pirate software wouldn't buy it if they couldn't pirate it.
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Well that's completely untrue. Take some of the latest video games for example. Quite a few gaming companies are completely frustrated or just flat out stopped making games for PCs. Instead they only release them on console systems or release them on PCs much later. It's not easy pirating games on console systems. So games make these companies an unbelievable amount more when released on consoles vs PCs.
That excuse is used a lot by pirates, "oh I wasn't gonna buy it anyway and neither was anyone I shared with on p2p". That just helps them sleep better at night. Instead of sharing it on p2p, they should've just stole it from the store, that would've cost the company less. There's a good reason it would cost you almost nothing in court for stealing software vs what it would cost for pirating and sharing.