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KevinH · 01-25-2011, 10:26 AM

Hi,

Your argument is very flawed. If it were true, then there would be no successful musicians/groups making any money. Yet they still do and lots of it.

If any publisher actually pushes the "license" versus "ownership" issue, they will soon get a very large class-action lawsuit filed against them for deceptive marketing/advertising and or a price-gouging lawsuit brought for charging "ownership" prices for "licensed" goods to be followed by charges of cross-collusion and price fixings (agency-model anyone).

If they push the license versus ownership issue then I would be willing to pay $1.00 - $2.00 per ebook, and not the $9.99 - $20.99 I am being charged today.

Also, assuming piracy is equivalent to lost sales is nonsense and that lack of drm or ease of copying results in increased piracy. Pirates never have and never will pay for their ebooks/music/software and therefore can not be counted as lost sales at all. I do not pirate, and never would as I want my favorite authors to actually produce more works. What actually keeps me from spending more money is DRM and this "license" issue. I think there are many many people like me. If they push the license issue, they will then actually see true lost-sales.

01-25-2011, 10:26 AM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,893 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hi, Your argument is very flawed. If it were true, then there would be no successful musicians/groups making any money. Yet they still do and lots of it. If any publisher actually pushes the "license" versus "ownership" issue, they will soon get a very large class-action lawsuit filed against them for deceptive marketing/advertising and or a price-gouging lawsuit brought for charging "ownership" prices for "licensed" goods to be followed by charges of cross-collusion and price fixings (agency-model anyone). If they push the license versus ownership issue then I would be willing to pay $1.00 - $2.00 per ebook, and not the $9.99 - $20.99 I am being charged today. Also, assuming piracy is equivalent to lost sales is nonsense and that lack of drm or ease of copying results in increased piracy. Pirates never have and never will pay for their ebooks/music/software and therefore can not be counted as lost sales at all. I do not pirate, and never would as I want my favorite authors to actually produce more works. What actually keeps me from spending more money is DRM and this "license" issue. I think there are many many people like me. If they push the license issue, they will then actually see true lost-sales. Last edited by KevinH; 01-25-2011 at 10:28 AM.