> Quite the opposite: as with all piracy, the ones who pirate stuff are also the ones who spend the most money buying the stuff they pirate. (For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience, but it was also true of DVD, video games, music CDs etc. but these people wouldn't have spent more money if piracy was impossible).

you take a few interesting leaps in a failed attempt of.... trying to turn opinion into fact?

> the ones who pirate stuff are also the ones who spend the most money buying the stuff they pirate.

Uhhh, wot??

Please provide ANY source for this. Really. Like even if it's a blog you wrote and was a creative writing experiment for you, publish it. Just so I can mock you.

> (For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience, but it was also true of DVD, video games, music CDs etc. but these people wouldn't have spent more money if piracy was impossible).

So at this point, I hope it's clear that you are a bit silly. But...

> For books there's the obvious reason that paper is still by far the best reading experience

This level of intellectual dishonest is horrible, especially if it's legitimate.