hey, I absolutely agree about my anedocte not applying to everyone else. What I wanted to illustrate was cases where, piracy not being an option, people just actually buy the games, rather than not buying as some people believe.<p>As for the income/worth of consumed media for month, I <i>surely</i> don't believe the amount of lost sales or whatever companies claim is <i>exactly</i> the amount of consumed media. That's false as you clearly illustrate. It means people would consume <i>less</i> media, within their means.<p>All those friends of mine, would the xbox 360 not have pirated games, would also have bought original games. They wouldn't just let it there, sitting. Would they buy every each of their pirated games? of course not.<p>So my thought process is not like "if there weren't pirated media, people'd pay for all they consumed as pirated items", but rather "weren't there pirated media, people would either consume original media, or do something else, and we can't tell that for sure". And therefore asserting that people who pirate stuff "would have never bought that anyway" is wrong.