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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
That takes us back to the initial situation:
Those people are not his customers. They never will be his customers. You just said it yourself: They want the price of ebooks to be zero. If the price is non-zero, they won't pay it.
So why is he getting all worked up about people who would not give him money if hell froze over and the demons broke out their ice skates? They're not his customers. He's not going to get their money. Their money is not on the table, it's not even out of their wallets, and it won't be. If they couldn't get his ebooks for free, they'd watch TV or something. The circumstances under which he would get their money do not exist. Those people are not part of the equation.
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Because your hell froze over prediction of what an entire class of people would do is no more likely than the prediction that if the cost to them COULD NOT be zero, through the burdensome cost of difficulty or punishments, then they might give up and decide that doing what's right is the better option and pay a fair price for the stuff they want.
In fact it's most likely, approaching certainty, that some people would do one and some the other and some something else. But having some people do the right thing, and some people watch TV (and at least not be breaking copyright laws or trodding on authors rights) is a better outcome than doing nothing and condoning their behavior.
That, at least, is the idea behind stronger measures and enforcement.
Not saying it's the right idea, or the best one, but it's a valid one.