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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
An easy example is that of the ordinary not too computer savvy person buying ebooks. It is in fact, for them, far less complicated with less hoops to jump through, and far, far cheaper to "buy for free" an ebook from direct download elsewhere or via torrent file providers than it is to obtain it from an ebook retailer.
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The reason that Amazon have been so successful in the ebook market is precisely because they've made it so incredibly easy to buy books. Buy a Kindle, tap on a book in the Kindle store and you're reading it. Buy a 3G Kindle or use one of their phone apps and you don't even need to own a computer, let alone be "computer savvy". If you're suggesting that it's easier to steal books than to do that, then I must, with the greatest respect, disagree with you. People steal stuff because they're scum who want something for nothing, not because it's easier than buying.