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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
..."There's More Sideloading of Pirated Content" than "Not Pirated Content"...
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Where did I state that?
I have no idea about the ratio.
If we'd take number of books as the criteria, pirates (or whatever the term) probably would account for a lot. My 10 friends alone with their 150.000+ books probably equaling 1.000 honest buyers or so.
If we'd take the ratio "legal books on readers" vs. "illegally obtained ones on readers" it certainly would be a more favorable (as in honest) ratio. The pirates probably simply not bringing their tens of thousands of books onto the readers.
So that's already an argument for my including "sideloading" into the equation.
If we'd take number of pirates vs. number of buyers, it's starting to get interesting. My guess would, a huge portion of readers fall into both categories. For example, in 2008 on my beloved iRex iLiad, I did have PDFs of 2 books from Umberto Eco. They hadn't been available as eBooks and it took me a while to get hold of PDFs. Some argue, it's not piracy (or whatever the term) as it couldn't be bought and so I didn't harm any purchase. I did consider it piracy back then and do so now, because I simply didn't pay for the books. In the meantime I have bought them. Even 3 or 4 times, in numerous formats. So I don't feel guilty about it and I still would count myself solely in the buying category. My ratio of bought vs. pirated is some 3.000+ to maybe 200. But that's history. I don't have a single not-purchased book on any reader. (At least on the active ones. I'd have to check the 7+year old ones in my desk drawers).
Many of you seem to think I have some kind of agenda:
a.) What agenda should this be? I can't gain anything of either result of the poll.
b.) I never did point fingers or blame anyone of piracy. I simply say, it's a huge issue and personally I'd be interested to know, how big it is. If you Google for a movie or a book, you instantly get dozens of hits. How save those websites are re. spams, viruses or being caught, I don't know. But it's all free floating in the web, that much is sure.