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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5377269" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'll just refer back to my original post with the Bill Gates comment on that, obviously there is a subset of businesses that actually WOULD rather have the 1000 pirates out there. MS may be a class of one in that regard, we don't really know, but chances are they're not. As I said before too there are reasons why marketing people would often RATHER have more control of the process in their own hands. I don't think very many companies are actively aiming to be extensively pirated, but that doesn't mean at least some of them don't recognize the potential benefits.And I am in no way justifying piracy. To be clear I haven't ever condoned it, practiced it, or encouraged it. From the perspective of the consumer freeloaders are generally not much of a direct benefit. Certainly someone that is an actual player of the game and should be paying their fair share and isn't? I'll bust their chops just like the next guy. Someone that D/Led a copy of a book just to look at and has no intention of playing the game or buying anything? Honestly they just aren't my concern.[MENTION=23977]Scribble[/MENTION] - obviously this is some guys on a forum talking. Nothing is provable one way or the other. I never claimed I was proving anything. More like pointing out the lack of any sufficient logic in someone else's claimed 'proof'. I did that partly by counter argument which really didn't require anything more than incrementally better logic than the argument being refuted. I mean really, nobody here can say what the cost/benefit ratio to Hasbro really is. I'd be quite surprised if THEY could do that, it would require knowledge that seems unlikely to be obtainable, like a pretty decent statistical sample of all the downloaders to be polled at the very least. I'm thinking that isn't a terribly feasible project. They might be able to get an idea over time if they can get some good data on customer acquisition, but that would most likely be no more than establishing a correlation, not a causal relationship.</blockquote>

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