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Originally Posted by Blossom
You have to look at the target of her audience. I find young people of today do not care about piracy.
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I think you are right. That's why recorded music has experienced a big revenue decline in the last twenty years. Some people here say they can fight back with lower prices and ease of purchasing. They have. I can, and do, download, or buy the CD, for a new Broadway musical, for, after inflation, less money than I could 20 years ago. But this caused Broadway to shift how it gets revenue. So we can no longer afford to go to the show. How some people here can't see a piracy problem is beyond me.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
I think her experiment was a failure personally
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I believe it. I love it. And -- I think it can be replicated!
Here's my unsolicited advice to authors and publishers. For an author's first book, don't worry about piracy. But to reduce piracy against a publisher's successful authors, hire a few white hat hackers to deliberately upload damaged copies. Sometimes they can repeat chapters. Sometimes, skip pages. Randomly change the names of secondary characters. Some things, like adding insults into the faked books, should be off limits. But generally let a small anti-piracy staff use their imaginations to make the pirate reader's experience one of risked frustration.
Will pirates fight back by posting notices identifying genuine copies? Yes, so post notices misidentifying the genuine copies.
Nasty? Nasty is arresting people. Nasty is raiding a family's college fund by fining it for piracy. I hate that stuff. My proposal would radically cut piracy without breaking up families or threatening anyone's future.
What about music and movies? Ethical hacking to combat piracy won't work well with them because people listen to a song a great many times, and, generally, watch movies multiple times. So the relative cost of listening or watching once, to see if the download is genuine, is small. Flooding pirate sites with fakes should be uniquely effective with books because re-reading is so much less common than re-listening.