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Message: <blockquote data-quote="N0Man" data-source="post: 4915187" data-attributes="member: 64066">Make up your mind.   First you seemed to suggest that they'd rather not get a sale if the sale was the result of piracy, now you say they do want me to buy their books?  Do they want my business or not?I also want to point out that I bolded the word "believed", because that's part of what I'm getting at.  The amount that it's costing them is based on assumptions that are false.  I've said this at least 3 times already, but I don't know how much it actually is costing, neither do you, and neither do they.  It's a guess, and a guess made on faulty assumptions.Actually what I said was that people were getting annoyed because of "principle", rather than there being actual damage.  If your counterargument is "it's about breaking the law", then that really proves my point, that it violates your notion of what is right or wrong (which is commonly referred to as "principle").Supporting piracy?  When did I support piracy again?  At the very most, I may have implied that piracy is being overly demonized; that while it may (and I think does) have negative impact, that this impact is often exaggerated and is often backed up by very suspect arguments.However, you seem quite certain that there is a negative impact on behavior from something such as possessing a digital copy of a book a book that you have purchased and own, for your own personal use, and not sharing with anybody else.  I want you to explain to me what the negative impact is.</blockquote>

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