mrkai, would you please stop putting part of your reply in the subject field? It's very disorienting, especially with the quote in between.
That said, not only it's pretty easy to find Baen books on darknet, you can actually find a lot of those sold on Webscriptions
legally for free (and I don't mean the Free Library). Check this:
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/
And still people keep buying them.
Actually Eric Flint covered a lot of what we're discussing here, including exact numbers. I highly recommend his "Salvos Against Big Brother" (start at the bottom).
http://baens-universe.com/authors/Eric_Flint