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Originally Posted by avantman42
If they were no longer available for free, there might be a profit in selling them cheap. After all, people currently sell illegal copies of software, why not do the same with ebooks?
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How would the "customers" of such hypothetical media thieves pay for their "products"? With their credit cards?
Moreover, that the casual "media pirates" of today will become smart hackers and successful criminal entrepreneurs just because they have difficulties getting media files to upload does make little sense, in my view.
On a side note: I don't understand the point you are trying to make. I am trying to explore (with the help of the MobileRead community) the possibility of devising a "social DRM" system that: (i) lets people be the owners (not the licensees) of their media files; (ii) makes illegal distribution of files more difficult.
Are you saying that this is a bad thing? Why?