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Old 10-24-2010, 01:39 PM   #427
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Originally Posted by Richey79 View Post
Interesting and relevant article: http://torrentfreak.com/book-piracy-...ndously101023/.

Pirates buy the material they like and respect, too. They aren't doing any damage to the market for published material, either, unlike the majority of publishing houses.
The only independent research on piracy that has ever been carried out concluded that people who download unauthorised content buy more legitimate content than people who don't. Whereas entertainment industry funded research that claimed billions of dollars were lost due to piracy was debunked by the US government.

Given those two facts, I don't really see what the fuss is about. If there is any massive wave of ebook piracy on the horizon that can only be a good thing for consumers, publishers, retailers and hardware manufacturers alike. (Writers are already benefitting from it, and will obviously continue to do so).
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