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Originally Posted by issybird
I think piracy mostly exists because people can and because a lot of people aren’t willing to pay anything at all if they don’t have to.
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While that is undoubtedly true for some small segment of society, I think using that as an easy pass for all digital piracy of ebooks is inaccurate/lazy. Look at the example of digital music. There is still some piracy. But it is nowhere near the level it was at in the days of Napster.
iTunes and then Amazon's DRM-free MP3s and then streaming services have all made it easier to get music legitimately than it is to pirate it.
Publishers could learn a lesson there. But they don't. I would bet that it's because piracy isn't really a big enough problem for them to worry about changing the ways they do business.