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Originally Posted by fairy_dreams
A court ruling just closed down Limewire (a prime site for music pirating) and I suspect that other major torrent sites will follow the same fate.
Ebook piracy will always continue (e-readers are making it more popular), but perhaps this will be curtailed?
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Sites get closed and others open, just like a Hydra.
The way ahead is to attract the frustrated ebook buyers who are restricted from buying particular ebooks because of where they reside, cannot get the right ebook format and cannot convert due to DRM, or refuse to pay exorbitant prices.
Publishers need to adjust their distribution and sales models to suit the digital age. They carp about piracy and the rise thereof but continue to encourage it by not doing a damn thing to entice those "wayward" potential purchasers back to buying their product.