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Originally Posted by Katsunami
If I can get games and books for $3-10 (€2.20 - €7.35, prices I couldn't even DREAM about 10 years ago when buying boxed games and paper books), not taking into account any discounts, I don't even THINK about pirating stuff. It's just not worth the time and hassle compared to the price.
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That just may be THE solution. Keep prices low enough so no one will waste time even learning how to pirate anything. With Amazon selling MP3 songs totally unprotected for an average $ 1.00 price, its just not worth my time to find a pirated copy of it anywhere. I don't even have to back them up since Amazon keeps a copy for me to re-download as much as I want.
With eBooks at $ 10.00 per copy it doesn't pay for ME to look for pirate copies either. Maybe those eBook prices should drop to an average of about $ 4.00 and eliminate all DRM and those looking to accumulate pirate copies will dry up.
As the price drops and the features increase, the incentive to make extra copies or look for pirated versions tends to disappear.
So far it appears the publishers and Apple were trying to hold eBook prices up per the latest suit which was won against them for price fixing last year. Amazon was trying to crush the prices. Maybe the others should go along with Amazon, cut the prices, increase the features and end all DRM just like with the songs.