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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I only have a crippled donkey in the race myself, but this is the part I don't really understand. Obviously I would rather they bought it, but if for whatever reason that isn't going to happen I would still rather they read it for free than didn't read it at all.
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But the issue is more like: 10 people are going to spend money to buy 10 books. Would you rather:
A. 7 buy John's book and 3 buy Jeff's book, or
B. 5 of the people that were going to buy John's book saw it on a torrent, so they decided to download it and they buy Jeff's book instead (which didn't come up immediately in a torrent search). So now 2 buy John's book, 8 buy Jeff's book, and 5 copies of John's book got torrented.
Sure, mid-lister Jeff is elated that his book is selling so well, but John isn't getting nearly the royalties that he ought to from his popular book, "Henry Porter and the Scholar's Stocking".
The amount paid on ebooks may be the same, but the compensation to the appropriate content owners certainly isn't.