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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I would go further than that. If it wasn't for the ebook piracy pioneers in the mid-90s nobody would have seen any profit in making a dedicated device for reading ebooks on.
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Using your wormhole again? You seem to have no problem knowing what might have been when it suits you.
Maybe it was this way: People wanted ebooks. Pirate saw the demand and filled it before the industry could. (with out costs or legal concerns it's easy to act quickly.)
Now by the time legitimate industry got into it, the presence of the pirates convinced them they needed these DRM measures, because it was already demonstrated people couldn't be trusted to respect copyright if it was free and easy to cheat.
And on a mere point of logic: If the pirate community is 'mostly folks who would not pay for the books no matter what' than how can the existence of a pirate community correctly indicate a potential for profit?