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Ugh. The person conflates not gaining money with losing money, the same rhetorical trick that the record companies make when talking about piracy.


Not necessarily. If they are consistently pulling in $X per month, then it is reasonable to state that depriving them of service for a month is depriving them of $X (i.e. a good estimate of what they would have made that month).


No. You assume that those that would be donating today will never come back. But it's reasonable to believe that many/most of those people will try again next week.


absolutely. donations = 100% income.




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