Thread: Cutting Prices is the only way to stop piracy
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Old 03-21-2011, 06:08 AM   #164
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I'm sure that's true, but to my mind it's completely irrelevant. The important point is that the person is taking advantage of those honest people who DO buy books: those books would not exist for him to illegally download if it wasn't for the honest majority who buy them.
Actually they wouldn't exist for him to download if it wasn't for one person who either bought a retail ebook or made their own from a realbook putting it there. Whether anyone else (honest or not) bought it wouldn't really make any difference to that copy's existence.
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