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"If everyone took TorrentFreak's position on piracy, Game of Thrones would make no money no matter how popular it was."

Sure? I actually did buy the books and am going to buy the DVD-collections, just because I have seen it/read it, thanks to piracy. Somehow win-win situation.

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Yes, sure. Because you wouldn't buy the books and DVDs from the rights holders, you'd buy them from some Chinese guy on eBay who was selling them for virtually the cost price of redistribution (and doing so perfectly legally, in the "information is free" world).

Guess I was the silly one then, going to the local bookstore and getting my eyes full with tears of happiness: "Oh hey, they have the original(?) US-versions here in Germany!" :-)

PS: sorry for the naive style, haven' t mastered the sharky way of saying things (yet)

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