Students appearing for competitive exams buy subscriptions to online tutorials and often share the access to these tutorials with their friends. According to the tutorial industry monetary losses due to this knowledge theft amount to thousands – not to mention the loss of potential paying students. However, most students with whom the paid subscribers share their accounts are not seriously interested in competitive exams. Therefore, the dent made to the profits of the industry is minor since_____________.
A. The proportion of paid subscriptions to shared subscriptions is not significantly higher from one year to another.
B. Only people with serious intentions of taking competitive exams invest money in online tutorials.
C. It is very difficult to match the potential loss claimed by the industry with the actuals given the huge database of bought subscriptions.
D. The tutorial industry also sells CDs of their tutorials with limited study material, the sales of which constitute a good proportion of their overall revenues.
E. The feedback available per paid subscription is a one-time affair and the users sharing the account cannot avail of the facility again.