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Meanwhile people in Eastern Europe, South America and Asia are laughing their heads off as they download everything they want and then some, from file sharing sites.
I know Russians who could easily afford to pay for their own eBooks but wouldn't dream of it. However as I understand it there are no real stores and it's taken for granted that people find what they need through sharing sites.
Books in the USSR used to cost 10 cent or something like that... Everyone could read as much as they wanted. I think books were cheaper than loo paper! Popular to popular belief in Western countries, most international literature was available, and what wasn't available to buy was hand copied and photocopied and shared between friends; both music and literature.
Last weekend I found to my surprise that my 14 year old twin cousins (girls) in Finland are totally up to speed on the torrent scene.
That's the future!
Copyright is impossible to enforce in the long run without looking down the whole internet, severely restricting peoples online behaviour and having a massive body of enforcers.
As long as there are people who struggle to pay for content, there will be piracy...
Let the copyright enforcers, Hollywood, record labels and publishers bankrupt themselves trying to fight an unwinnable battle...
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