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Originally Posted by issybird
Exactly.
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”. It’s just a book and there are a lot of books out there; I suspect the overwhelming majority move on when they can’t get a particular book. People prefer to be honest, mostly.
Only themselves to blame seems a harsh judgment on a rights holder merely exercising those rights. I also have a sneaking suspicion that rights holders may have a better handle on maximizing profit/revenue/market share/whatever than the guy in the bleachers. Not that they can’t or don’t get it spectacularly wrong at times, but eliminating piracy entirely would probably cost much more than tolerating a certain level.
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I think you are right. They do it because they can. The only way to eliminate piracy altogether is to stop publishing.