When I was 11 I woad never have read harry potter if it wasn’t for a pirated copy because I did not want to wast my money on some thing stupid now I own all the books. Pirating does not always hurt sells it can help get your product out their to people who woad have never heard of it or even purchased it. They become fans who are more likely to buy or influence others to buy your product.

And thats what I think. People don’t go on and on how library’s hurts the sell of books, Audio books and Movies. I grow up knowing how to hit Record on the VCR and Cassette player I remember sharing computer programs throw the mail. Some of the worlds great books woad not still exist if someone didn’t liked it so much that they copied it from the library of Alexander. The bible the most read book in the world only exist to this day because of P2P sharing

So yes I don’t think P2P sharing huts sells as much as people want to believe as it as always existed in one for or another but people who make a profit from pirated copy’s are hurting sells