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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Hmm... so untold numbers of pirates are spending time copying and OCR'ing books, being downloaded by untold internet users, none of which are actually read?
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Well, yes. A collection can contain thousands of book. Every person downloading a collection will only read a handfull of these books if they read them at all. I have downloaded some science fiction collections but have not yet read any books from these collections. I am mostly interested in having searchable text of books I have paper copies of.
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Why would anyone give gifts no one wants, asks for, or uses? Even for this situation, that's phenomenally stupid. So I'd suggest there's a problem with this assumption... the fact that you have no hard data on reading means nothing, since no one's gathering data in the Darknet. Statements like that are anecdotal, but otherwise useless.
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Well, maybe. But you statements in these questions is also anecdotal and therefore useless.
One obvious use is that you want to search the book. And of course you can use the collection to combine it with other books and make an even better collection that you can give away.
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If it could be ascertained that the Darknet held no threat, by sheer reliable data, publishers would not try to protect their content to keep it off of the Darknet. QED.
We need more than beliefs that "I'm missing the point."
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Well, some publisher does not protect there data. Also during the weekend I heard a Tor editor say that the darknet was not a threat now. He said that he was happy if one more person read the book since that would generate more sale.