It is not. I was making a comparison for perceived loss vs actual loss.
With real, physical products, you can calculate the money that went into making the product, and so when that product is stolen, you have a concrete value of what the company has lost. It isn't going to be the market price because companies sell at a profit, but it could still be something like a loss of 200$ to the company on an 800$ item that was stolen.
With digital products, there is no money that went into making a single individual copy. So when that copy is pirated/stolen, there is no actual damages UNLESS the person who stole the copy would have bought the product if it was not for them getting a free copy. And there is simply no way to tell who would or would not have bought the product if not for the free version. "Loss" claims on digital products are not concrete, calculable, numbers, and are nothing more than the companies ASSUMING people would have bought the product in the first place, which many would have not. Those numbers are nothing but propaganda and foolish assumptions.
It is not. I was making a comparison for perceived loss vs actual loss.
With real, physical products, you can calculate the money that went into making the product, and so when that product is stolen, you have a concrete value of what the company has lost. It isn't going to be the market price because companies sell at a profit, but it could still be something like a loss of 200$ to the company on an 800$ item that was stolen.
With digital products, there is no money that went into making a single individual copy. So when that copy is pirated/stolen, there is no actual damages UNLESS the person who stole the copy would have bought the product if it was not for them getting a free copy. And there is simply no way to tell who would or would not have bought the product if not for the free version. "Loss" claims on digital products are not concrete, calculable, numbers, and are nothing more than the companies ASSUMING people would have bought the product in the first place, which many would have not. Those numbers are nothing but propaganda and foolish assumptions.