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Originally Posted by stonetools
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.
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Which type of downloader are we talking about here? File collectors aren't going to suddenly start buying 3,000 ebooks per day just to feed their habit. They will just start collecting something else instead, or more likely just go back to IRC or whatever.
Try-before-you-buy downloaders won't be buying more because they won't know what to buy. They'll just continue buying from the favourite writers they've already discovered and there will be no more openings for new writers.
So that just leaves the freeloaders, people who download as an alternative to paying for stuff. Poverty is the main motivation for those people, so where would they get the money to buy all that stuff? They might buy a few things, things that they
really want, but the rest they will either do without or aquire some other way. Any additional sales from them will be more than wiped out by the lack of new sales from the try-before-you-buy crowd anyway.