I don't think the situation is a dire as some people make it out to be. A lot of people are paying for legal downloads for music that they downloaded for free a few years ago. Didn't get Napster itself get "napstered", and Kazaa "kazaaed"? Give them reasonable prices and an easy way to do it most people will try to be honest. With ebooks we are not there yet, given the mess of different DRM systems that are tied to different readers.
The people who advocate free always get very upset and pull out the oddest explanations why they should get paid and others shouldn't be.
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