Piracy is just free advertising. Most of the people who uses pirated games are not going to buy them anyway. But they will spread the word, they will show the game, etc. It is also true that some are checking the pirated version just to be sure the game is worth buying. But these are another category.
Assuming the war against piracy will be won by the big companies, I really doubt it will drive their sales trough the roof though.
Any use of Bittorrent or any other P2P pretty much by definition "includes receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works". It is also quite easy for offline non-commercial infringement to fall under that definition.
I am not as knowledgeable like you, but judging by what you said the use of the internet itself falls under the same category like P2P. So using the internet is a felony or something? Because every time I use the internet I expect to "receive anything of value" and sometimes this might include copyrighted work as well. Can you please help me understand this? thanks, Val
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