piracy causes harm to the concept of projected profits and “lost sales” which are neither rooted in reality nor coming from a well grounded expectation of success.

Being greedy causes all this entitlement to things that “could have happened”

it which universe is crime illegal but you don’t have a system to catch and punish people because you expect people to be flawless or an agent of circumstance?

One cannot be entitled to castles in the air just because they imagined it.

edit: if some person spent some effort and got a copy online for free, were they ever considered to be a prospective customer in the first place?

i do think you’re wrong, but I am not willing to spend time to prove it so yeah i agree with you.

piracy is not the same as stealing. You having a copy of a bible as a PDF is fundamentally physically different from having a physical book.

Publishers have perverted the concept of ownership by hiding the fact that there is no scarcity of digital items compared to physcial ones.