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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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Not going to happen. Limewire is severely dated technology and it took YEARS of legal action to get to this conclusion. Keep in mind Limewire is a fully enclosed peer to peer software package like Napster and Kazaa. Those are indeed easy to shut down because they do have centralized servers.
Other torrent sites like Demonoid or ThePirateBay do not operate off portal software like Limewire nor do they have central servers that can be shutdown (and ThePirateBay is not US based, therefore the US courts really can't touch them). All you need for them is a torrent client such as uTorrent. Everything is spread out amongst the peers/seeders without going through any centralized servers. Turn on PeerBlock, load up uTorrent, and good luck to anyone trying to stop you.
Not suggesting anyone should or should not do this, just showing how easy it is to use and how difficut it is to stop with pure torrents.
As for pirated books, honestly I think it's a very, very, very small segment of ebook users. Face it, the music industry got hit hard with this because music is more popular than reading. I truly don't see pirating of ebooks as having a big impact on the industry (not right now, at least).