I suspect that may be because: a) The game wasn't big enough in pirate-space to garner the interest in a pirated copy. b) You just haven't seen the pirated copy.
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Can you back it up though? I also don't understand your reasoning that a pirate can never be a consumer. We'd also have to assume not every pirate is the same, of course, as some buy some of their games, some pirate all their games and some pirate a fraction of their games.
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