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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I'm not debating the finer points of the law. Of course they are within their legal right. But it is a shame these things happen. Business decisions like this only promotes piracy.
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Absolutely. When the only ways to obtain copies of a work are illegal, people will break the law in order to obtain them. And then the old school Big Content players point at such "piracy" and whinge about "lost sales" and how file sharing is killing their businesses.
Which does bring up another answer to the question of "why ebooks?" Digital editions of works are vastly easier to replicate and distribute, legally or otherwise, than physical editions. This makes it less likely for a given work to completely disappear. It also makes it much easier for these works to be distributed in nations with repressive regimes.