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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
Well, I suspect that whether the site actually made money or not will come up in their trial. Obviously it is impossible to show that the publishers have actually lost any money do to piracy, but it would be equally naive (if not more so) to believe that all the pirate sites exist simply out of the goodness of their own heart.
As for the publishers doing it themselves... maybe they should, but lets keep in mind that publishers do have extra costs that a pirate site does not. They have to recoup costs of editing and promoting and publishing a book, and then there are those pesky royalties....
It might be more doable for an author to work on that model, assuming they can generate enough traffic on their website to generate the ad revenue they need to make a go of it. The advantage of the pirate sites is that by having thousands of books, mp3s, movies, etc, they can attract viewers that advertisers want without having to pay any of that revenue to the creators of said work.
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Bill
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It would make more sense to work with those sort of sites on a profit-sharing basis, a bit like with Spottify. Something being on Spottify doesn't seem to harm sales of mp3s, so it's obviously a completely different market. Megaupload were planning something like that, where creators got paid per download, but obviously that won't be happening now.