Thread: Sideloading: Own content or "from somewhere else"
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Old 11-10-2014, 01:57 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by mgmueller View Post
Technically, it certainly can be done.

The friend I've mentioned before downloaded 20.000 books before buying his first reader. Download was quick enough, but then he filtered for damaged files, wrong labels and such.

But I've rarely seen such high figures for legal content as I've seen frequently for illegal content.
Now you're getting into that weird space of pirate/ebook hoarders. I'm guessing they downloaded because they COULD - not because they intended to read those 20,000 books. (Which is the whole ... it doesn't make them less pirated, but it does mean they're not really 'lost sales' from the ebook market.)
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