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I'm not sure you're right about that. I have friends who pirate games, and they typically do exactly what I described, only going into the video game category instead. They don't keep up with new releases and only know about games when they start seeing them on their favorite torrent site's list. I imagine there are plenty of book torrenters who do the same. The only way it is worse than a retail site is because you can't sort by genre.
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You can go to numerous retail sites, or gaming review sites, and not only search by genre but read reviews (or even watch video reviews), see screenshots, detailed explanation of the game, and often even video trailers/gameplay. I'd say that is a lot more than just being able to search by genre, and it's as easy as typing a url in a different tab. When you consider the time to download and install a modern game (including possible troubleshooting of a cracked version), and the percentage of games that are terrible, you'd be nuts to blindly pick one from a list of torrents.
I seriously doubt many people use the torrent site as part of the book selection process unless they are a masochist, have extremely low standards for reading, or can't figure out how to open Amazon in a different tab and cut/paste a title.
I think the impact of torrent sites is overblown, to be honest. Regarding games, I feel that developers waste their time with oppressive DRM schemes. However, people make a lot of dishonest arguments that don't pass the laugh test, imo. Few torrent users are acting out of economic hardship or exercising political/philosophical beliefs. It's just people getting free stuff, because free is better than not free. Fine by me, but call it for what it is.