[CommanderROR]

I thought I'd ask this question here...I'd like to see whether more people share this opinion.

As you can probably all remember, the birth of iTunes and it's competitors was mainly due to piracy.
mp3s on p2p networks and illegal sites forced companies to offer their own online-solutions. After Napster went commercial (with little success as far as I know) those mp3 sites just started popping up everywhere. Small, lightweight and cheap players swamped the market and you can hardly go anywhere without seeing people grooving to the tunes that come from those ultra-small mp3 players hanging around their necks. The biggest player on this market is Apple with it's iTunes/iPod hardware/Content solution. While I don't plan on using an iPod, I use iTunes a lot and love the fact that I can get the Track I need and want instead of having to find a shop, having to find a CD and then buying a 15 or more Euro CD just to get the track I need. I like to listen to classical music, and the supply there is pretty meagre in German retail stores, so that's another plus. Although I don't like the DRM stuff and the "for iPod only" policy, I actually find myself using iTunes a lot.

For books things are even easier. They don't even need to be ripped or anything. Every modern book starts as PDF or similar datafile anyway, so it would be cheap and easy to set this up. With a proper device the interest in reading files loaded from the internet will probably rise...and look at the filesharing sites...they have a pretty large database of books online already. I did some research and actually found quality to be OK as well. So do you think the piracy scene will help us one again and force the reluctant publishers and authors to offer their content in digital form?
Go ahead, take the poll and post your opinion.
But PLEASE don't turn this into a "where to get warez" discussion.
Thanks