Thread: Pirate Bay founders found guilty
View Single Post
Old 04-22-2009, 03:23 PM   #237
sirbruce
Provocateur
sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.sirbruce ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
sirbruce's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,859
Karma: 505847
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Columbus, OH
Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS
Quote:
Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
So you're saying that specifically MR members are the kind of people who would and thus will become pirates?
I wasn't disparaging anyone here (I've pirated ebooks myself); I'm just pointing out that there are several people here who complain about pricing and DRM. How many more will there be when the "average joe" is dealing with these issues on their ereader? Services like Hulu and Video On Demand and now even Amazon's Video Service came online specifically to capture people who would otherwise be pirating those videos via BitTorrent, YouTube, etc. I just don't think we can truly say yet if the majority of pbook readers would accept a $5 ebook over a $0 pirated copy, or that the publishing industry can survive with $5 ebooks.

Quote:
Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
Anyway, your "Dramatization of what will be happening in just a few years time" reads like a Dan Brown novel.
Thanks! I think...
sirbruce is offline   Reply With Quote