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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Piracy is only "stealing" if someone's losing value from it. If piracy doesn't cut into sales at all, it's not stealing--which means that ebook piracy of a book with no legit ebook may not be stealing.
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But they do not want you know that!
To them EVERY downloaded whatever is a lost sale. Remember that they have statistics to prove they have lost billions on lost sales because everyone would have purchased the ebook/movie/trash song in question.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The Harry Potter books would hardly have doubled their print sales without bootleg ebook editions floating around. The people who downloaded either (1) already bought print versions, and wanted digital versions for the purposes pbooks don't cover (search, copy/paste, portability), or (2) were too poor--or believed they were too poor--to buy the print books, and would've just gone without.
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This is a great example of the incredible navel gazing that some authors and the publishing business in general is currently undertaking. Do they change, evolve and benefit? Nope, they simply winge about it. Afterall, those lost sale every download statistics look good don't they?....
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
An argument can be made that they should just go without.
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That same argument is spruiked by those who reckon that geo restrictions are a good thing we all need to have.
Lets face it, there are always going to be piracy. It is the degree of casual piracy that can be resolved IF the publishing, entertainment and music industries start making changes to their business and distribution models to meet customer expectations in this digital age.
Customers are getting bloody sick and tired of bending over and taking it amidst a cacophony of "we know what is best for YOU!"