UPDATE: As part of an assignment, I wrote a research paper on this topic that takes this idea a lot further. Piracy and the Myth of Lost Profits
For those of you paying attention to tech news lately, you would have noticed that Pirate Bay’s trial in Sweden has been making headlines. Of course, articles about Pirate Bay and “download illegally” always spark many comments from many people. One comment in particular stuck out to me from a Wired article. Someone said that downloading was “theft”. I started this post as a comment on that story, but decided I’d post it here instead.
