this contradiction always confused me. either way the official company is “losing a sale” and not getting the money, right?

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          Anecdotal evidence is literally evidence of one (which disproves “zero” claims). Collections of anecdotal evidences make statistics making your dismissive statement dumb.

          I’m adding to the pile. I can name literally over a dozen people in my childhood who copied Discs.

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            Start naming. Organize the names. And their experiences, and start collecting over time, if you wanna go that route. Because otherwise, you’re just some random words in the ether.

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              We are… you have 3 in front of you. Out of the probably 300-400 people who’ve looked at this thread you’ve seen 3 people answer affirmatively. You’re watching it happen in real time!

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      Burning CDs. That’s how I know most people didn’t know how to do it, or want to put in the effort. You had to go buy a stack of CDs, hope your computer supported burning, had to make sure players could support the burned disc (depending on if you made a music disc or data disc, if it was rewritable), and spend the time to burn the disc.

      Contrast that to ctrl+c ctrl+v.

      There’s more people who can ‘duplicate’ digital files than there were people burning CDs.