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Originally Posted by bhartman36

2) People trading files aren't "sharing" anything. When you "share", you either a) give something to someone temporarily, b) give someone something to keep, leaving less for yourself, or c) keep something in a communal area where multiple people have access to it. None of these definitions apply to this kind of "file sharing". The Pirate Bay was facilitating file transfers, which resulted in reproduction of files, not "sharing".

Well, one could argue with c) - and this argument is purely semantic.

I do not think that DRM is the ultimate answer to this. DRM is a temporary, necessary evil while companies/IP providers figure out if there's an actual market for these things.

Why? IF the market works without DRM (as demonstrated by music shops ATM) - then there is no need to test the market with a different instrument. In fact testing a market with a considerably different model (DRM) removes all sense of tests.
DRM is a evil. Full stop.

I would personally love to see all e-books distributed in open epub, MOBI, or (although I don't really like the format...) PDF format. Pirate Bay and similar sites slow that process down, though.

Nonsense. Without those sides music companies never would have started a download market without the concurrency through P2P (etc) - see their long, long fight against downloadable music, their continuing support of utterly useless formats (in low quality), etc

If you know people can get something for free, you have a hard time justifying starting a venture to sell it to them. The venture itself costs money, after all.

Why? Provide more service ... Keeping to this old market system is plain stupid.

I think this is a bad day for the Pirate Bay guys, but it might just be a good day for ebooks...

Why? You have not given a single argument that publishers will e.g. learn from the music industry (from their current development, not their errors) or that there even is a substantial ebook piracy or that it damages the market OR WHATEVER ELSE.