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Re:Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon by mattmaroon on Thursday December 04, 2008 @12:12AM (#385342)
This isn't costing Amazon a cent other than maybe some small bandwidth costs. Nobody who knows enough to install a Firefox plugin for a bittorrent site never found themselves buying a CD unaware that they could have gotten it for free.
Re:Firefox Pirates Take Over Amazon by daniel_yokomizo on Thursday December 04, 2008 @08:59AM (#385658)
It's always a matter of incentives and transaction costs. Now whoever uses this extension has a little bit more incentive and a little bit less cost to pirate. A locked door isn't enough deterrent to thieves that really want to steal from you, but they work well enough against the lazy ones.