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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
My issue with all this shrill piracy pronouncements and draconian remedies - without any evidence for anything - and leaving aside the sometimes insulting assumptions behind them - is that already e-books have huge hurdles ahead, and adding imaginary ones, especially when you claim you want to promote e-books, well...
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Well, we're clearly going nowhere fast on the subject. We could just give it up while we're way, way behind...
On the other hand, imaginary or not, piracy is
still a perceived issue with publishers and authors, an an issue that is holding them back from releasing old and new works to the consumer. Clearly the amount of discussion indicates that
something is going on, but that no one can agree on exactly what that something is. If that something is not determined, how will it be dealt with (or, if it turns out to be nothing, how will we know we don't have to deal with it)?
So even these arguments/rantings/suppositions/threats/posturing/disagreeing, while divisive, should amount to an eventual understanding at some point. At heart, we all want to work this out, so we can have e-books and enjoy them. And after all, the best things are worth working for, aren't they?
In the meantime, I agree that these piracy arguments can be downright painful. Even so, they are worth having, because it's the only way we're going to come to an understanding, and only through understanding can we take positive steps and move on.