Economically speaking there is no difference between losing money and not making money, but socially there's a clear distinction. You're not automatically indebted to someone just because they built something you want. No value is lost when a digital good is duplicated. The only thing lost in this case is an opportunity.
>The rationale that someone wouldn't buy it anyway doesn't hold when the argument is that they want it so much they can't wait for it.
The point is that customers wouldn't buy the show under the conditions it's currently offered to them anyway.
You seem to have no issue ascribing ideas they have never written to people who reply to your comments. I therefore assume (and assumed) you are in full and complete agreement with the various *AA over the handling of piracy. Including but not limited to rights-restriction, network monitoring, traffic shaping and mass legal threats.
Also, your comment was idiotic and I was spinning it the other way 'round to demonstrate this.
>The rationale that someone wouldn't buy it anyway doesn't hold when the argument is that they want it so much they can't wait for it.
The point is that customers wouldn't buy the show under the conditions it's currently offered to them anyway.