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Originally Posted by Rbneader
Your post is predicated on 3 things:
1) That distributing pirated/re-typed books is never going to be successfully stopped
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Which is probably true. The files are small. There are too many ways to share them to identify and block them all. Whack-a-mole.
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2) That many/most books will be released in physical form
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No, that books will be re-leased in a form humans can read it (which is the point no?). If someone can read it, then they can re-type it.
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3) That other people value sharing books enough to re-type them
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We know this is true because it happened in the past. And not just for super popular books like Harry Potter.
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Remember, Harry Potter was the most popular book series for a long time. Its sale numbers are up there with Shakespeare and the Bible. That's why people went to such effort. For 99% of books released, there isn't enough demand for that level of effort.
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I disagree. I remember seeing pirated ebooks in the early '00s before ereaders were popular. They were usually text files or PDFs and clearly typed (or OCR-d) - often they had a version history so you could check if you had the latest! True it was easier to find best-sellers but there were a surprising number of lesser known titles. (I suspect that once those typing them got the method down they applied it to all their books)
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My time is money. Re-typing a book = hours and hours of time, not worth it no matter what the book is. There is literally no book worth that much.
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True for you, true for me too. However not true for everyone. And there only needs to be one person who cares enough to make a digital copy and if that copy is then shared it can be copied endlessly.