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Originally Posted by Mivo
I wasn't being serious.  But this seems to be how publishers think: an illegally downloaded book is a lost sale. It's nonsense, but explains the obnoxiously large "damage done by pirates" numbers we see every so often, in various fields of entertainment. |
Obviously.
I also know people who have hundreds of thousands of songs, and many thousands of movies. If they'd read, they'd have tens of thousands of books as well. That's useless. Nobody can consume that much entertainment. It just wastes hard drive space.
Most people who want a movie, book or CD go looking for that (be it officially, or pirated); only the data hoarders cast a net so wide it includes every torrent and usenet posting on the planet and save it in NSA-like fashion, "in case I may want it someday".
I've done so twice: with the Baen CD's, and with a website that provides very well laid out public domain works. Both could disappear at any time, without there being a good alternative. (There may be for the PD works, but I just like that site's very simple but nice layout.)