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Originally Posted by webroot
if Analog-hole is the ultimate tool then everything is venerable, including cable/digital TV, stock image websites, video streaming sites and everything else that can be captured digitally.
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Correct.
Except for the stock image websites, as you can always right-click and save -- or worst comes to worst, rip the image URL from the Network tab in Firefox or Chrome.
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What is your advice for them, drop all guards ? what message it will give to their consumer, that their service is for free? There is importance of perception and fear play most with average people.
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No, just the stupid guards.
I encourage them they need no encouragement to only offer their wares to paid customers.
How on earth can you possibly imagine that "paying for something" gives the message "our service is free"???
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Cost of a title will determine whether eBook will be pirated or not. Currently print is main form of income for publisher/author and anything that eBook sales yield is considered bonus. I know that some are making living from "only digital" editions, but how much is that any figure?
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Wrong, wrong, wrong.
The ebook business is a massive component of book sales, and successful indie authors make more money off ebook royalties than successful tradpub authors make off BPH ripoff advances on pbooks
and ebooks.
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In my opinion, spending money on books is always risky, specially when you don't know beforehand that it will really be rewarding, only after a week you know, that's how I experience most of the time. unless i hook up with a particular author, so your take on "honest buyer" is holds as long as peoples are rich.
And as long as a technology do not affect most of us in a substantial manner we do not care, and that is the situation right now. See nowadays politicians are talking about curbing net neutrality because now it is affecting them. Few years from now piracy will not be something you can ignore, then the question will not be that if you made money but whether it was enough?
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To be honest, I have no idea what you mean by these paragraphs. Are you replying to something I said? If so, can you clarify what you are saying?