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Originally Posted by Bittybye
I just want to know why they aren't going after used book stores? They don't get paid for the books sold there. And everyone knows those dastardly used book store owners are making a profit (something that from what I understand most pirate sites don't) off the backs of the poor publishers.
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Megaupload made 12 mio US in a year from advertising (if I remember correctly), Pirate bay presumably makes a lot more than that. Their owners are living the lives of bankers with big bonuses, not the lives of second hand bookstore owners. Piracy is big business, time to wake up and smell the coffee. We are not talking about some poor souls who run the website on an old PC from their mothers' basements with a mission to selflessly spread the love. And every time you visit such a site you are supporting those leeches and not the authors.
It is ridiculous to compare used book stores to those websites. As you can tell with cars, the value of second hand items enhanced the value of the new one. And besides, the authors already have been paid for that single copy.