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I mean how is a pirate copy going to affect a company's bottom line?

But that's the argument RIAA/MPPA have always made: that they "ought" to be making more money than they are, and that the reason for that is that people are getting pirated versions rather than the real thing. They argue that every single person who got a pirate version would have bought a real version if the pirate version weren't available. That's where their "billions of dollars of losses" is figured from. They aren't actual losses, they're hypothetical losses.

They will never ever concede that (a) there are people who would never have bought it even if pirate versions weren't available, (b) people don't have an infinite amount of money, and they can choose to spend what money they have on other things.