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Originally Posted by HarryT
But what happens when what you want to do is to give copies of it to all your friends, or post it on a bittorrent site for 10,000 other people to download?
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What is preventing unscrupulous users from doing this now? Why are we still buying books if DRM can be (and has been) removed from particular ebooks? I suspect there must be tens of thousands of books out in the darknet, readily available for downloading. Yet here we are, still buying books. Why?
Two answers come to mind:
- Convenience - it's much easier/faster to obtain ebooks via legit channels, even with the inconvenience of having to deal with multiple formats and DRM.
- Ethics - most people are not criminals; they understand that authors need to be remunerated for their work. Many (I would think most) of us believe in the importance of adhering to a social compact.
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Originally Posted by igorsk
"Sad thing", "fall for this"? I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
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igorsk, if I understood correctly the way this site works, it is engaging in
criminal behavior by not respecting copyright law. It seems the equivalent of darknet, except that it's charging customers for stolen goods.