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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Widespread pirating, is done via bit torrent anymore, however it all tends to originate on IRC. Very few people have access to newsgroups anymore, and most don't know what IRC is.
I was actually just talking about this with someone last night. In my experience, most ebook pirates seem to be fairly respectful of copyright, and just go after things they couldn't get normally or maybe would be embarrassed to get.
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Mostly correct, as far as the hard to find stuff goes. As far as embarrassed, wouldn't really know since I never read that genre.
The reason that the ebook piracy hasn't really taken of yet tho is that e-reading is still a small "market" and MOST of the pirated books out there are really REALLY badly formated. At least the ones I have seen.
I admit to having downloaded a few "darknet" e-books, that were impossible to find as legit e-books. But I tossed them out pretty quickly due to the fact that they were pisspoorly formated and a pain to read.