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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I fully agree. We often read comments like this: "if we download from the darknet they will lose sales and listen to us". This is really nonsense, since "they" don't even know you are downloading from the darknet and "they" don't know if you would actually have paid for the books. Besides, we are not children, when we want something we must have it, even by illegal means? Speak up, that is what you should do. Why don't we value the writers' contribution and help them make a living off sales (or at least have a chance of doing that) rather than forcing them all become beggars for government or industry handouts?
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This is all very well, but when the publishers seem to be actively trying to prevent people from supporting authors and assuming all their customers are potential thieves then it is actually no wonder that some people take the easy option and prove them right.
Maybe if the publishers took the novel approaches of trying to give their customers what they wanted and treating them with a little respect rather than as potential thieves then that's likely to have a far greater influence on piracy than stronger restrictions that would only be seen as a challenge by some anyway.