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Originally Posted by kjk
Why won't they? Other people here have stated they will go back to used paperbacks, for one. I just don't think everyone goes to the darknets as their next and obvious option.
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The darknet has its own costs. Downloading takes time via torrents, especially if you utilize public torrents. It's not a simple click and there's your file.
There's also the quality issue. You have to carefully filter who you download from, and double check the quality, often fixing stupididity in the process.
If the major players want to curtail piracy, they need to make the money cost of their product more attractive than the time cost and quality cost of pirating it. Until their product is more attractive than "free" products of unknown quality, they'll lose customers.
iTunes went a long way towards solving this issue, however I have never bought anything from iTunes because of the pure crap that is 128kbs encoding. If an online store offered reasonably priced FLAC files (please let there be a GOD and make it 192kHz while you're at it), they'd have all my business.
Right now the modus operandi for me, is to buy an ePub from Books on Board, remove the DRM, and read. If my choice is not available at a reasonable price in ePub, it goes on my wishlist until such a time as it is available. With 300+ books on there at the moment, there's a good chance I'll just never get around to purchasing most of those books; since I'll be distracted by newer offerings.