Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
People Rationalize Everything. Even the irrational. That's why this issue has been stuck in the same bog for a decade, and will be a decade from now.
My ebooks aren't expensive (less than $3), aren't covered with DRM, are available in most any country, have nice custom-made covers, are high quality digital products, and are not written by someone famous. And they still ended up in BitTorrents. (Yes, I've seen them.) So, obviously someone rationalized a perfectly good reason to put them there, such as "He's rich," "He's an old geezer and doesn't need more income," "He's a jerk, this'll teach him," "He's black," "He's not black enough," "He's American," "He's not a good American," "He's a geek," "He's a nerd," "He hates Madonna," "He hates Lady GaGa," "My buds will think I'm cool," "This is just for my family," "No one will see them," "No one will know I did it," "The Devil made me do it," etc, etc, etc...
Bottom line, we can't rationalize away piracy. The only thing that can be done is to make piracy undesirable, so people won't want to be bothered doing it in significant numbers. And the best way to do that is to make products available in an easy and reasonable package, so people won't think twice about just buying them.
You'll still have piracy, but the better your package is, the less piracy you'll have, and the less it will matter.
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