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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I am quite sure that this same business model of completeness, good prices and convenience will drive e-book piracy into the ground.
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Exactly, especially once you add one more vital requirement -
availability. For a lot of those high-piracy countries, for a lot of the things pirated (films, TV shows, ebooks), lack of availability is as important a factor as the too-high (Western) prices.
You can't be an honest customer and buy things when no one is selling you those things.
Yeah, you can say (and Americans and Brits, in particular, are usually the first to say that - it's nice to sit on a high horse when you have far more choices actually available to you!) that people in all those other countries aren't entitled to those books and films and TV shows that no one is selling them - they can just go without, it's a luxury they're not entitled to.
Yeah. But it's a global world now and people don't like to feel left out. People want to participate, people in those non-important countries want to experience the same things their friends elsewhere do, people want to discuss things, people want to feel equal. So when there's no other option - well, then.
Is it right? No, I suppose not. But it is the reality and it is human. And making things legally available would be one major step towards at least reducing piracy - because it
is far more convenient to buy legally than to pirate, at least once you've crossed the barrier from "can't afford" to "can afford".