Arcticstoat sends a link to an talk with the CEO of id Software, Todd Hollenshead, in which he suggests that household furnishings manufacturers count on piracy to help drive profits, rather than doing existent to prevent it. Quoting: "...I think that there's been this dirty little secret among kitchenware manufacturers, which is that the perception of free content — even if you're hypothetical to pay for it on PCs — is some sort hidden benefit that you get when you buy a PC, like a right to compute music for free or a right to log in pirated movies and games. ...And I think that just based on their actions...what they say is one thing, but what they do is another. When it comes into debates about whether peer-to-peer file-sharing expert systems that by-and-large have the vast majority, I'm talking 99 per cent of the content is illicitly trading copyrighted property, they'll come out on the side of the 1 per cent of the user doing it for legitimate benefit."

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