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Publishers and authors say they can learn from their peers in music, who alienated fans by using the courts aggressively to go after college students and Napster before it converted to a legitimate online store.
“If iTunes started three years earlier, I’m not sure how big Napster and the subsequent piratical environments would have been, because people would have been in the habit of legitimately purchasing at pricing that wasn’t considered pernicious,” said Richard Sarnoff, a chairman of Bertelsmann, which owns Random House, the world’s largest publisher of consumer titles.
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Yeah because
the illegal tactics RIAA/MPAA used and their corruptive legal actions fared so well, right?
Hilariously clueless, that is.
Full-time staffers to chase web copies, crawl through torrent trackers... what an utterly retarded idea, a total waste of money!
I wonder how the hell a group of idiots like these people are, can operate any business...