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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I deny the far-fetched idea that your books will be stolen and distributed.
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I've seen it happen where I live (south africa). If you take your computer in to be fixed you've got a 60-90% chance that your music/books/tv series/movies/games on your pc being copied, and that's with a repairer and not even a thief.
Piracy is so rife here that we missed the whole nes/snes/genesis era (70% of all psx games sold was pirate, 30-50% of all ps3/4 games are pirate).
Piracy in south africa is when you sell an unlicensed copy, giving my friend a copy of something I bought isn't. Microsoft came out a few years ago and stated it on national radio that, that is their view on piracy. We do have more stringent laws, but it's not really enforced.