Thread: EU vice-president: Copyright legislation is “pushing people to steal”
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Old 06-12-2015, 05:54 AM   #86
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
This is of course not unique to eBooks. Some video & music contracts are also Geo based with different movie studios and record labels holding distribution rights in different places. As for pushing people to steal (or infringe copyright anyway) maybe, but even if you could buy all the movies, books & music available on the market for really low prices there would still be tons who feel it's fine to download what they want for "free".
Probably true, but I wager ebooks are easier to pirate in that they are small files. I mean a movie is anywhere from several hundred MB to several GB in size for just one movie. I can't begin to guess how many ebooks are able to fit in a like space.
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