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Originally Posted by calvin-c
ROFLMAO. Self-policing doesn't work for anything and I doubt that anybody with so few ethics that they'd knowingly distribute pirated copies of books that were otherwise easily obtainable has enough ethics to bother with policing a web site.
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If you don't
like ebook piracy, just say that you don't like ebook piracy, don't make up FUD (may I call you Elmer?)
See, unlike you, I'm not just talking out of my nether regions. I'm describing what I see
every day-- there isn't a day of the week that I don't visit movie and ebook and software pirate sites, and I
know what happens there. The pages for individual downloads have comment areas-- if there is a virus, people tell about it. If the administrators are told, they remove it. Witness, for example,
this forum area for reporting bad torrents.
Don't even look at it from an "ethics" point of view-- look at it from a "business" point of view-- the operators of these sites want repeat visitors. If you insert or allow malware, you won't get regular, repeat visitors. They will move on to sites where the
don't have those problems. And copyright infringers want a sense of community as much as anyone else-- many if not most sites have forum areas, some with
much higher traffic than Mobileread.