I feel it is instructive that we remember Tim O'Reilly's incisive piece titled "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0]. It makes little sense to claim that an auth

I feel it is instructive that we remember Tim O'Reilly's incisive piece titled "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0]. It makes little sense to claim that an author/musician is losing money through piracy when the likelihood is that the [majority of the] pirated copies would not have otherwise been bought. Footnotes. [0] http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html