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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Also, I still want to know what the point of your original statement was, because I can't see why it matters whether or not most ebook pirates don't know what a torrent is.
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Apps like
100,00 Free Books in the Google Play store appear to be legit, but probably aren't.
Likewise, to the casual user, sites like
Library Genesis appear to be legit.
Then there is UseNet, which used to, and for all I know, still has gigabytes of files flowing through the pipe line, every day. Again, to the naive user, those postings could be construed as being legit.
And finally, IRC, which is about as easy to setup, as a torrent client. This is a little harder to claim "legit", but even so, some legitimate material is exchanged this way, so there is a chance that a person could think that everything exchanged thusly was legit.
I have no idea what the market share of those four methods is, or how that usage compares to torrent sites. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they were responsible for more illicit distribution, than torrents are. Certainly the first option (apps like
100,000 Free Books) is responsible for more innocent downloading than torrents are.