False.You do realize that piracy has been proven to boost software sales, right?
Software Piracy: Estimation of Lost Sales and the Impact on Software Diffusion on JSTOR
Moshe Givon, Vijay Mahajan, Eitan Muller, Software Piracy: Estimation of Lost Sales and the Impact on Software Diffusion, Journal of Marketing, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Jan., 1995), pp. 29-37
