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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I was surprised by the fact that E-reads/Curtis are trying to fix piracy by going after filesharing sites. I remember using them a form of primitive cloud service back when the email limit was 10Mb, and one of the bad things was that unless you actually had an account, the files were there for a limited amount of time. Since I doubt that the pirates actually have accounts, the disappearance of the files would be something to be expected.
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People just re-upload them again when they die. But I don't think those sort of link sites are anywhere near the "threat" people like to make out. One of the better known ones with a number 30 in its name shows the number of downloads each book gets, not one of the ones posted in the last month has seen more than a couple dozen downloads.
The cynic in me says this is just an attempt to provide a new "service" to their writers so that they won't abandon the publisher and go it alone. Especially with the Rapidshare type sites being well known as being a soft touch for removing content on request.
This idea that they won't bother tackling torrents because it's too complicated for people to download them or they're afraid of virus/malware? Just an excuse because they know it's a lot harder to get the torrent sites to remove content unless you have proof you're legally responsible for it.