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Whereas the type of piracy that I am referring to, could - in my view at least - mostly be easily avoided, if publishers took the appropriate actions. Of course, there will always be losses from piracy - that's obvious - but publishers seem to be making matters worse for themselves by upsetting the people who they should be looking after, the very people who would very likely actually pay for their product, if only it was priced more reasonably, didn't include DRM and wasn't geo-restricted.
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Didn't we just hear from an author who did all that, and still got pirated? Look if reality differs from your beliefs, its time to adjust your beliefs.
I also reject the idea-commonplace on this forum- that authors and publishers need to conform to some Digerati Code of Perfect Conduct , or else they deserve to be ripped off.
Authors and publishers have what they think are good reasons to set the prices they do. I, like every consumer, think the price should be lower, but I understand that I feel this way, not because I understand the economics of publishing ebooks, but because I like cheap.
I've been around the barn a few times on DRM, and don't want to reopen the debate here. Suffice it to say that authors and publishers think it necessary to protect their IP rights, and that it is understandable why they think the digerati alternative-no protection whatever- would be costlier than DRM. You may not like that reason, but it's certainly A reason.
As for geo-restrictions, its the author's rights and they need to be negotiated- not just arbitrarily usurped by pirates.
In any case , the default should be that the IP rights of authors and publishers should be respected, not violated because some folks dislike their business decisions.