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user-inactivated  ·  4062 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Piracy isn't killing the entertainment industry

I firmly believe that if someone torrents a piece of entertainment, they wouldn't have bought it in the first place due to a lack of money/ethics/etc if torrenting hypothetically did not exist. If anything, torrenting encourages the user to buy the piece if the user has a good experience with it. If the user doesn't have a good time with the torrented material, then they can simply delete it without any remorse for buying something they didn't enjoy.