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Originally Posted by dkperez
And frankly, I can ABSOLUTELY understand the rise in piracy and believe it to be a DIRECT RESPONSE to the ridiculous policies and prices set by the publishers. Don't want people to pirate books? Make them legitimately so ubiquitous and cost effective that it's NOT WORTH THE EFFORT TO GET ILLEGAL COPIES.
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The publishers can scream all they want, but restricting access, charging obscenely high prices, and implementing draconian anti-piracy schemes didn't work for the movie industry, didn't work for the music industry, hasn't worked for the software industry, and it sure isn't going to work for the book industry.
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I gave you karma for these paragraphs. Around the time of the SOPA blackouts, I read someone tweeting, "Here is my Anti Piracy plan: I write really good stuff, charge reasonable prices, and people somehow feel strangely compelled to give me money. Go figure".