Thread: There's a better way to beat the ebook pirates
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Old 04-26-2011, 11:33 AM   #204
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Originally Posted by intheendofdays View Post
Is this for all files or just for e-books?
How would this be managed?

I can see lots of people put up any random crap just to make some money from being downloaded.
You say that as if it's a bad thing ...

I don't know how it would be managed, that would be someone else's job. But it would be trivial to count the number of downloads of any individual file, and could easily be automated. The main thing would be to make sure that any money collected through taxes, ISP levy or whatever didn't just get stolen by some big corporation that kept it for themself. Which is what happened with the blank tape levy some countries had in the 70s.
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