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Originally Posted by Sonist
You'd think that their goal is to teach a whole generation the habit of piracy....
Just like the music industry was insisting on $2.99 per compressed, DRM-ed track a while back.
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If low prices discouraged people from avoiding payment, dollar-type stores would have little shoplifting. But all the evidence I see -- admittedly impressionistic -- is that low prices are totally compatible with people commonly taking what they didn't pay for. Here's one data point:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Emp...RVW2888269.htm
Now, the psychology of piracy is a bit different than the psychology of shoplifting, especially on the uploading side. People who upload pirated eBooks, I strongly suspect, are doing it from a misplaced idea of helpfulness. IMHO they'd still want to help if the books sold for a quarter.