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Originally Posted by mikij
However, the georestriction and the fact that many of the contemporary authors are not available in form of eBooks MIGHT push some towards the pirates. However, I suppose the pirates don't do a professional proofreading (if at all) and they cannot be interesting to readers.
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I think you will find that it DOES push locked out buyers to the darknet once they have exhausted all the means at their disposal to buy an ebook they truly want to read and are most willing to pay for.
Forget DRM, geographic restrictions is the worst. It is simply not necessary.
In the end the only legal alternative is to buy a dead tree copy, which does defeat the object of owning an ereader in the first place, but does push you in the direction that publishers want you to head towards.
Publishers, like the music and entertainment industry inflate these piracy figures in order to make their anachronistic distribution model look good and those downloaders to be the anarchists.
Sways the lawmakers and courts to side with them.
So in the end there is little or no change.