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Subject: Re: Stronger

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 01:46:26 01/29/05

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On January 28, 2005 at 17:22:54, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>>Believe me that I also hate piracy as this takes away a reasonable amount of
>>sales and therefore direct income from me and my family.
>
>I am never sure what to think about piracy affecting sales.  The question is
>always: if pirate X was unable to get the software for free, would he/she pay
>for it?  I think in the majority of cases the answer is no.  I'm sure there are
>some sales that you lose, but I suspect the number is lower than you think (of
>course, not being in your brain, I can't be sure).

Certainly not everyone who has a cracked version would have bought a licence.
Still those who would have bought a license are a significant number.

Stefan




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