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Originally Posted by sriram
Years ago, when cassette tape piracy threatened to destroy the music industry in India, an enterprising company decided to take the battle to the pirates. Made tapes so affordable that it didn't make any sense to buy bootleg (i.e. reduced the price by 65-70%), turning it into a volumes game. Now, this is should be easily possible with digital media, so what's preventing these 'moguls'? I mean, if a new book were to cost $2.99 or $3.99 rather than $9.99 - $12.99, who'd risk downloading pirated versions?
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Nice idea. I am speaking from a personal opinion. I don't mind paying $9.99-$12.99US for ebooks, especially given they are about 50% of the price after conversion of pbooks here in Australia. What I do have a problem with is geographic restrictions. So if I am willing and able to buy an ebook, but every ebook seller refuses to sell it to me because I live in Australia, I have a few options;
1) Attempt to circumvent the geographic restrictions.
2) Buy the pbook (defeats the purpose of buying an ebook reader).
3) Don't buy the book at all (everyone misses out, including me).
4) Find a pirated electronic copy.
Which option would you take? I don't think RapidShare promotes piracy, I think it just provides the means. Regardless of the price of things there will always be people out there trying to get it for nothing, you can stop that. But I think what really needs to be looked at is WHY ARE PEOPLE PIRATING??? Is it price or is it because people can't legitimately buy the product?
Just my 2cents.