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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I disagree. I believe that people, in general, choose the fair and legal route because it's the fair and legal route. Often despite the fact that it's harder to set up, and the product is harder to use, because of the DRM attached.
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I agree completely. I don't believe anyone decides to pirate
anything simply because its
easier than than going the legal route. People decide to pirate long
before they have all the necessary facts to judge its "level of difficulty." They pirate for other reasons.
And laws to punish downloaders are designed to seek recompense for money they were never going to make in the first place.
There will always be enough customers willing to pay for their books to support authors who are writing books that people want to read. Honesty's not dead... no matter what you hear to the contrary.