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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
While it's obvious that not everyone who downloads, would've bought the book anyway--some of them might have, if no download were available. Publishers are not told they should give away print books because many of the people who read them would never buy them, and the same principle should apply to ebooks.
I don't believe that the torrent network is "destroying the publishing industry" or anything like that, but I also don't think it's irrelevant and should be ignored.
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Unless that "some of them" is a lot larger than I've ever gotten the notion, it's a waste of time prosecuting and persecuting a group that is primarily composed of "digital serfs", for the sake of menacing a minority of economically better off peers who follow their suit out of choice rather than necessity. Which, in my book, makes the torrent network utterly utterly irrelevant--especially for the book/ebook publishing industry--threats of humanity's most precious writers ceasing to produce in protest notwithstanding.
- Ahi