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Originally Posted by banjobama
I have often heard that piracy has nothing to do with the cost of something. Even if a song costs one dollar on Amazon or iTunes, as I think most do, people will still try to get it for free. I think this is an entitlement attitude more than anything, or some kind of sense of "sticking it to the man" or whatever.
Even if ebooks cost fifty cents each everywhere, people will still copy, share, and pirate them, just because they can.
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I am not sure that I agree with that. I could have gotten Enya's last CD off the darknet for free. However I love Enya's songs and wanted to support her, so I bought her CD, and then put it on my computer.
I did the same thing with the dvd of Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, I watched it on Netflix and I loved it so much I bought the dvd, which is very rare for me, I think buying dvd's of movies is silly.
While people will continue to get books for free and not want to pay prices, I also think that many people realize that authors and musicians are trying to make a living.
Amy