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Old 02-01-2011, 08:10 PM   #242
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Originally Posted by ikonixx View Post
But, that's just it. Say that the ebook was purchased and the DRM was stripped then the author was paid for his/her work.
By the original purchaser/converter. But not by the potentially huge number of people who then downloaded the pirate copy.

What incentive is there for an author to write books, let alone for a publisher to publish them, when that situation exists?
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