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In all these "calculations" of how much revenue was lost because some pirated software or music I wonder if they ever factor in how much less grief they got from angry customer emails, time and money spent supporting it, and how much word of mouth publicity it got thereby increasing the size of their potential pond of customers and raising the percentage of people who would pay for said software.
I'm not justifying anything. Simply some food for thought.
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I agree with you.
Some companies/bands/etc put out there software/songs in the warez world because it's pure advertisement for them. Sometimes, yes, it does hurt them, but I know personally a bunch of people that just use warez to try out a software to make sure they'll like it and that it's worth the price, and then they either buy the software or donate to the developer however much they think it's worth.
So it does have it's good points, and definitely it's bad points.
*I'm not condoning warez*