  Piracy rates are the highest in developing nations
Comments     Threshold   RE: Not Lost Sales By keith524 on
5/12/2009 2:47:30 PM , Rating: 2 Doesn't that kinda prove the
point of the OP? If you argue the student would use the lab
before buying the software then the company has not lost any
money if the student pirates the software.  RE: Not Lost Sales
By BadAcid on 5/12/2009 3:57:59 PM , Rating: 2 If they pirate,
they don't use computer labs. Unused computers don't get
replaced when they update the labs, and so fewer office licenses
get purchased when the school's get new licenses.  RE: Not Lost
Sales By Hvordan on 5/12/2009 4:11:42 PM , Rating: 3 The OP
argues that because their estimate of lost revenue is flawed we
should not take them seriously. I'm not sure I understand what
the point of that argument is. Clearly there is an impact to the
developer who created the pirated software, there is an impact
to developers in the same field who have reduced opportunity to
compete, there is an impact