>>715230703
>It’s flat out delusional to think piracy has 0 impact on software sales.
Correct. Piracy actually BOOSTS sales, if the product is really good.

It's been proven time and time again.
>book creator
>make good books
>sell badly
>blame piracy
>do an experiment
>release next book for free as a digital copy
>sale for the same book literally triples
>wouldyoulookatthat.jpg
https://www.techdirt.com/2011/02/11/how-neil-gaiman-went-fearing-piracy-to-believing-its-incredibly-good-thing/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI

Also snowpiercer would have been forgotten if not for koreans illegally spreading the book and translating it, then figuring out that it's good and making an official movie out of it.
Modern industries fear piracy because the only requirement for this increase is that you need to make an actually good product.