Re:Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"
by gizmo686 on Saturday December 01, 2012 @04:49PM
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Not necessarily. When you pirate something, you are hurting the owner's chances of selling it to you in the future. If you know that there is no chance that you will buy it, then it is victimless. If however things change and you are in a position where you would buy it, you are far less likely to, which does hurt the seller.
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Re:Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"
by qu4z-2 on Monday December 03, 2012 @12:06AM
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In some cases you're actually helping the owner's chances of selling it to you in the future. Sometimes I pirate something and it's so good that I just have to buy it.
Of course, in a lot of cases demos would work well for that, but they seem to have fallen out of favour recently.