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Originally Posted by Abtacha
Publishers (not only for books, but games and movies as well) need to realise that their goal should not be to stop people from "pirating" their work, it's to get people to buy it. And those two are only superficially related.
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I think the relationship is in the price. If people think they could easily get the book for free, they will feel like suckers to pay more than a low price.
I don't know about games and movies, but it seems to me that the effect of piracy in music has been for the price of recordings to, after inflation, go down while the prices of live performances increase. The live performance options for authors are limited.