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		manaskarekar on Feb 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork I think he's asking about stuff like 'What kind of damages can KDE claim due to "lost sales", since it's not software that is usually sold.'

belorn on Feb 21, 2013 [–]

Lost sales is normally calculated as some hypothetical price tag in the case if Sony had bought a license from KDE. Its what music labels do when calculating damages in p2p cases, rather than looking at the unit cost.

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