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Steve Andrewartha <s_andr...@hotmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>pc games wrote:
>
>> Its clear the only pirate among the 3 is Jim, but at the end who did
>> reduce sales for PC Games? All 3
>
>Nope. You cannot assume that, if a theft/loan of a game is impossible, 
>then the would-be thief/lender would go out and buy the game. Most 
>piracy is undertaken be people who only make the acquisition BECAUSE its 
>free.

I used to know a guy that ran a pirate BBS.
He, and various others like him have vast collections of pirated games
and applications which they don't use.

They collect them, like stamps;  and like a stamp collectors stamps,
they aren't actually used.

>The actual impact of piracy on the games market is unknown, but is 
>certainly much less than you imply if you say that every theft is a lost 
>sale. I do not condone piracy, BTW.

I actually downloaded one of those piracy reports by the SPA (Software
Publishers Association) some years back.

They came up with their "lost revenue" figures by estimating the number
of computers in the country, estimating how many of those computers were
capable of running the software, then estimating what percentage of
those computers would use the application, then subtracting actual units
sold from that number.

A guess based on a guess based on a guess, then presented as though it
was a concrete FACT.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr