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To play the devil's advocate:

On the other one can argue that people pirating does not improve their economics either so why risk it ?




Except it could, actually: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3308905

But it's not as if corporations acted rationally anyway, they are led by humans and as such they are mostly driven by emotions.


Don‘t they say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery? :-)

I get your point – I just feel like there’s not a lot of potential economic improvement to be had here, but apparently there is.




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