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Chris Anderson argues that media companies, unable

Chris Anderson argues that media companies, unable to push the piracy rate to 0%, should live with the benefits of “just enough piracy”. I’ve heard that in the (distant) past, Adobe turned a blind eye to piracy of Photoshop because it was getting their product out into the market. Tim O’Reilly’s related essay entitled Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution is worth a read as well.