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From the article: It is estimated that up to 20 per cent of eBook downloads are from pirate sites.
Only 20%? Pfft. Then we really *don't* have a piracy problem. If Stross was right when he said that 75% of readers never contributed to the author's income stream--were fans who'd borrowed books or bought them secondhand or read them from libraries--and ebooks are 80% paid for (or maybe a bit less, because "emailed to a friend" is not downloaded to pirate sites, but I believe we can safely say those are a lot less than the number downloaded from sites), there is *no* loss from "piracy."
Of course, they didn't quote anything like a source for that statistic, so I assume it's from the same place that insists that a single case of infringement should be worth more in damages than the income of the entire history of the recording industry.
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