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Old 11-09-2010, 07:48 AM   #147
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Originally Posted by orwell2k View Post

And a word of warning to publishers and authors - piracy at the moment is haphazard - some people buy books and break the DRM then share them. But if publishers really start pressing the price hikes and force a true eBook black market, it will explode. Every form of DRM has been broken, and new ones fall within days. So a coordinated piracy effort requires only one official eBook sale for mass pirate editions to become available. Duplicate and spread these all over the web and the publishers will see what undercutting really means.
You could actually have an organised place - people kick in donations to somewhere a la a demonoid or something - someone is in the UK, someone in the USA and they choose the books to buy, crack and systematically upload.
They might even choose particular publishers they disliked the most.
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