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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5377150" data-attributes="member: 82106">Heh, yeah. It is really irrelevant to an economic calculation if people who will NEVER be customers download a copy of your stuff. In fact it can't really be seen as anything but positive from a business perspective, at least you got eyeballs on your product, which is a pretty significant goal in marketing. Ideally you probably would rather those with no interest at all don't copy your stuff, but you never know, they might show it to someone or their kid might look at it, etc. At that point it is pretty much just a marketing material floating around on the net. And frankly anyone that tries to go around saying they have ANY idea what the cost of piracy really is has zero credibility with anyone that knows a bit about the subject. The "we lost $82 billion because so many people copied our stuff" nonsense is what makes the RIAA a laughing stock. Obviously they don't believe those numbers either, but pushing that kind of mush headed logic on the rest of the world is a PR stunt at best and loses you all credibility at worst.</blockquote>