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But, again, you said it in your own post: They want the price of ebooks to be zero. If they couldn't get it at a price of zero, they wouldn't get it at all. So if you're not going to get their money no matter what you do, why bother with them at all -- focus on the people whose money you are going to get, and on getting that money. There are ways to do that. Flouncing off like Anne Rice is not any of them.
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Look, WW, I understand your argument-that piracy, no matter how pervasive, CANNOT affect sales of a pirated product because people who go to pirate sites never want to pay for stuff. I think that argument is nonsense, myself. People go to pirate sites because its easy and it doesn't cost them anything. Make it hard to get to the pirate sites (IOW, ENFORCE the law) and people will pay for things they want to enjoy.
If you make it easy to pirate or casually share, people will do that a lot. Make it difficult, and they will do it less. Its not that hard, really.
Let's also squelch the dumbest argument, trotted out repeatedly in these discussions-that if anti-piracy measures don't work perfectly to stop ALL piracy, they shouldn't be attempted at all. Let's try that argument on for size with other crimes.
Laws against murder haven't stopped all murders, so let's do away with homicide laws
Locks don't stop all burglaries, so let's dispense with locks
Anti-fraud laws haven't stopped all fraud, so let's stop enforcing anti-fraud laws.
Stupid, isn't it? Yet its trotted out as being somehow self-evidently true in the case of piracy.