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> The other significant reason is that customers are too greedy
> and selfish to honestly compensate creators for their work,
You missed one. Those customers are not only selfish and greedy. They are also lazy as hell. I know this because I am one.
Say, hunting for a darknet book and then re-formating it from scanned pdf takes me about 30 minutes. Buying a legal copy takes me 1 minute. Unless your customer is totally broke, he'll go for the legal option. Gives him this nice fuzzy feeling of doing the right thing as well.
This can work. I know this because I have seen it work.
The reason why this will -not- work, is that it spells eventual doom to significant portions of the publishing industry as we know it. Not because of piracy. But if your entire global distribution system gets replaced with a couple of servers and a pot-smoking sysadmin then lots honest hardworking folks are going to be out of luck.
> But the "common man" has run rampant over other industries
> through selfish, immoral and unthinking demands before
Yes, industries have become obsolete before. Well spotted.
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