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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Exactly. The more restrictions publishers put in place, the more motivation they are providing for people to get around them.
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Yup...prohibitions simply have never worked...you can even look at the original owners manual for some members of the human race...the first prohibition failed in Eden...been the same over and over ever since. It is always going to fail when law dictates people must refrain from their very nature...in this case curiosity and adventure or even just a sense of controlling one's own world. Work within human nature in your business model and you will come out the other side as a winner.
heck, if I was a publisher I would have my own darknet site that seemed to offer every danged one of the company's works a week or so before they hit the shelves...and I would charge for the ability to download as well as gather all the marketing data one could about the visitors...it will not harm the HB sales at all and would be a big resource for the business likely either turning a small profit or at least covering it's overhead...leaving the profits being the demographic data gathered.
Ever wonder if any publishers have already done something like this?
