Re: The challenge of serving *EVERYONE* (was RE: Mozilla blog: DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users)

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 03:14:05PM -0700, Mark Watson wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 14:14 -0700, Mark Watson wrote:
> >
> > > The rights owner certainly loses something of real value through the
> > > act of infringement (a potential customer).
> >
> > This is a non sequitur.  The fact that a person infringes copyright does
> > not imply that they would have been a customer had they been unable to
> > infringe.
> >
> 
> ​Yes, but I said "potential" customer. There was a probability ​they would
> become a customer that was non-zero on average before they infringed and
> lower after they infringed.

On what do you base the assertion that the probability reduced?

-- 
Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net>

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