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I'm sorry; yet another thought has occurred to me.
All I said above might lead you to believe I'm all for anarchy, and authors not getting a cent for what they've endeavoured to create. I'm not - I'm only for having the ideas I outlined clear in public perception. At the same time I hope the technological advancements will lend a hand to the process of publishing, and at some point in the future the official, original release of author's work will be available to the public at one click of a button, professionally edited, free of DRM and geographical restrictions and readable on all or nearly all devices used for reading. I hope that the psychological problem that caused micropayments to fail - that people irrationally stop when it comes to the act of paying anything - will be overcome, and the issues involved with security of payments that make you click through pages of things now will be simplified to one click. Then buying the book will really become much easier than downloading it from the darknet, and the majority of people will do just that. There will always be hoarders of stuff, and sharers of terabytes of it, but those are minorities, and the real customers who don't have time for that stuff, or even learning there is darknet, will choose to buy. It'll be just like going to a bookstore instead of browsing used bookstores, only on the Net.
Because all laws aside, people will want to repay the author for the effort as well.
The sooner the bookstore owners stop trying to outlaw used books trade and make their stores shiny, comfortable, easy to buy in, with polished shelves and cafes inside, and no long chains labelled DRM on the books, the sooner that will happen.
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