ddb writes: 'counting every pirated copy as a full-price retail sale in stating the losses from piracy is absurd.' You are correct, not everyone who pirates a copy would have bought a retail copy had the pirated copy not been available. But---- how else do you determine the losses? If I sold 50 copies and 200 people pirated copies, I would like to think that those people who pirated were just too cheap to pay for their copies. So---the market is there. If pirating is killing your business, maybe your charging too much. A CD or book is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. Maybe it would be better to decrease retail price to capture those pirates money? Teenagers who can afford to have a system that can burn Cds and download Mp3's-----can't afford to buy music??? Don't value the music enough to pay for it is more like it. John D. Barbato, OD