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Worldwalker, thank you for your reasonable and helpful answer! I was wondering if there were any numbers because an author was talking about having over 4,000 copies of a book downloaded through a pirate site and it made me wonder.
The geo-restriction thing from Amazon and other ebook sellers is a silly thing. I suppose the easiest way to fix that would be to have a general international law about copyright and its term limits.
Piracy is a very touchy issue. As one of the younger generation that was around when mp3's first became widely available through sources like napster I can see the "its not really stealing" side of things and understand where they come from.
I do buy and pay for my mp3's these days, though I must say I don't buy very many of them!
I feel that authors work very hard on their books and deserve to get paid for their creative time and energy, the same as music artists do.
Anyway thank you for the good answers!
Amy
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