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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
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.
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Bingo. That's always been my thoughts. Only in industries run by organizations with a permanent stupid complex like the RIAA think they are somehow going to get 80 bazillion dollars if they could somehow stop piracy. That would get only a tiny fraction of what they think they would get.
The dude downloading a torrent of 1,000 books would not be buying 1,000 books if he couldn't torrent them.