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Old 11-09-2010, 11:49 AM   #16
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Is there any party that benefit from not getting that ebook sold?
A lot of pirate sites gain income from advertising, which will be based on number of unique visitors, so any extra visitors will benefit them. Some of the uploaders also get affiliate payments or some other type of benefit every time their file is downloaded. Or if you paid for some IP masking service they would benefit from it. Or you signed up for some pay-per-download site/service, premium account at some dropbox type site ...

All I can see the publisher benefitting from it would be not being taken to court for breach of contract, assuming the writer or agent had any way of knowing about it. But I think it would be a pretty odd writer who would object to having a paying reader enough to do that. Unless they had no intention of ever writing another book and the one they did write wasn't selling well enough to live off it.
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