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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I really think that if content is available, in electronic format, with a decent price, less people would download from the darknet.
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Yes. The way Jerry Pournelle puts this is that he does not care if there are darknet copies of his books so long as a Googgle search brings up the legal ebook first. You have to have a legal ebook version for this to work, and anything else is futile. I don't download from the darknet, but I also don't buy physical books any more. There are now more than a million EInk Readers out there, and most of them are owned by readers of many books a year. I single out EInk, because these are dedicated reading devices. There are hundreds of millions of other devices that could be used for ebook reading.