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Originally Posted by charleski
I seem to recall that this attitude worked really well for J.K. Rowling. So well, in fact, that people who might otherwise not have got involved in piracy ended up helping to digitise her last HP book so that a reasonably-well-proofed machine-readable form of it appeared on torrent sites within a week of the book's release. The Harry Potter books are now probably the most easily-obtainable of all pirated literature...
You fight piracy with convenience. If you only need to tap a few keys on your Kindle to read the latest John Grisham book right now, then people will pay rather than hunt out a torrent, wait for it to download and then try to figure out how to convert an amateur PDF file to something your machine will read properly.
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Totally agreed, it's a non-argument. I think it basically all boils down to greed. The music industry tried to hold off digital format, they lost. If they would have embraced it right away, they would have been way better off. The movie industry is trying, and they too will lose. Grisham can claim it's piracy, when it's actually greed. He will lose, although I think it might be for other reasons (he used to be my favorite author, and now his works are getting worse and worse).