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Originally Posted by wgrimm
Question here- is it "the consumers" who are dishonest, or "the pirates."
Here is what Merrill Chapman (author of "In Search of Stupidity" has to say about software piracy, and it probably applies to ebook piracy...
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I don't think Chapman's example is applicable to e-book piracy, really. He's talking about popular software packages that are revised and improved over time, and the methods software companies take to make you pay for the next copy, even if you got that last one for free. Yes, this has been a very successful model for Microsoft and Adobe, and earned them the dubious title of having some of the most odious DRM systems around.
E-books (and music) do not fall into this category, because once you have the book (or song), you don't go back to get regular revisions. So there's no comparable way to convert a "cheating" customer to a "paying" customer on the same product.