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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I know we need to not discuss piracy techniques here, so I won't give details, but all of you who are looking at bit-torrents as a measure of piracy are looking in the wrong place. That is where video piracy is big but not even a flea on the back of the book market.
IRC channel DCC transfers are the volume of book piracy today. Available titles absolutely dwarf torrent listings. I suspect the reason is the much smaller size of book files compared to video and music. I don't know how to measure those DCC transfers but someone else here might?
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Forgot about those channels, along with Usenet where a lot of it started out. I'm not sure how you'd measure the IRC transfers, there used to be some sites around that you could see how many people had downloaded the file, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. I chose BT because of its ubiquitous nature and popularity, mainly as a gauge of how popular ebooks were to the average P2P user.
I'll have to look into IRC and see what I can find out.