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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I guess. But doesn't patent infringement come close?
Also:
http://www.wired.com/2014/12/where-s...art-phones-go/
All else equal, if the price is higher, there will be more shrinkage. By how much, it is easy to say in the case of well-tracked physical goods like automobiles.* In the case of eBooks, there's no way to know the relationship between price and piracy. I doubt the relationship amounts to much for reasons I've suggested on other threads**. But, yes, basic economic incentives tell me there is a relationship between price and piracy. I'm sure the same is true of paper book shoplifting. So what? Are we going to start blaming shoplifting at neighborhood bookstores on lack of discounting?
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* It is true that luxury cars aren't, as a class, in recent years, the most often stolen. This is because effective anti-theft measures are built into luxury cars years before they appear in mainstream models. But, as my link shows, more expensive luxury cars are more likely to be stolen.
** The reward to risk ratio is similarly close to infinite for downloading an eBook without paying, regardless of pricing, due to the rarity of criminal or civil sanctions. |
Patent infringement and shoplifting are easier to control because those are tougher crimes to execute and easier to detect and prosecute than Ebook piracy, aren't they?