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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil
Not the same thing though, you aren't even setting foot in the store and all packages are unopened, no sales are lost. For this to be equivalent, you'd need a way to "copy" the connectors for yourself, without spending anything.
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So no one who ever would have spent money on a song/cd/movie/dvd ever downloaded it instead?
Wow that's a nice delusion.
You cannot deny that the availability of free media online has reduced the demand for music and cost the companies who make that media money. I didn't make my post to preach the evils of downloading music though, I was simply pointing out the very obvious flaw in the logic of the posters I was responding to.