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Originally Posted by MGlitch
I’d argue this actually enforces Issys point.
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Not sure how you get that.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
[Publishers] only have themselves to blame when their works are pirated because they restrict access or place onerous conditions on said access.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Stealers gonna steal. The bulk of piracy occurs because people can and not because individual moral arbiters decide that something’s crossed the line of “onerosity”.
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My point:
Napster made it less onerous to get digital music. The industry overcame piracy by copying Napster and charging what enough people considered a reasonable price (thanks to much arm twisting by Apple and Amazon) to where it was just easier and better to do things legally. So the music industry looked at what the pirates were up to and made improvements on their end to complete.
The publishing industry has in fact NOT followed that example (thanks to collusion by Apple and the biggest publishers).
I'm not defending pirates. But 'stealers gonna steal' will never fix the problem of piracy.