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Originally Posted by fjtorres
You are not wrong; that way lies Napsterization.
If dedicated hobbyists and influencers are blase about piracy and copyright, those attitudes could very well spread beyond the techie/hobbyist community.
That way lies a war that would benefit nobody.
(Just look to the music industry.)
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Having a war with your customers is never a good idea. There are superficial similarites with the music industry, in that digital piracy drove sales of dedicated hardware, which in turn led to the creation of legal places to buy content for those devices, and eventually gave opportunities to DIY content producers.
But I don't see the writing industry making the same mistakes. I doubt many of the people buying ebook reading hardware now ever stray away from whichever website their reader is tied to, never mind go surfing pirate sites. That's why sales on Smashwords are so poor compared to the sites they distribute to that have dedicated hardware.
Ebook piracy will never be as big a problem for writers as the second hand book market has always been for them.