Morality and downloading

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Now I remember the argument for pirating. Found it by reading this:

http://bigthink.com/the-moral-sciences-c...he-economy

But what happens to the money the pirates would have otherwise spent on those legal copies? They don’t eat it!

(1) in the case that the counterfeit good has similar quality to the original, consumers have extra disposable income from purchasing a less expensive good, and (2) the extra disposable income goes back to the U.S. economy, as consumers can spend it on other goods and services.

As one expert consulted by GAO put it, “effects of piracy within the United States are mainly redistributions within the economy for other purposes and that they should not be considered as a loss to the overall economy.”