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Originally Posted by scveteran
I disagree with you because you are only looking at the actual physical costs not being any higher. I look at as the person has taken a copy that they wanted, and likely would have paid for except for the piracy.
So if author gets paid only on the copies that were physically sold and not the ones that should have be sold, you are taking money out of their pocket. You also take money away from others everytime you pirate the work.
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Well, given that far too many polls and studies have shown that most 'pirates' would rather not buy any work, their pirating, for the most part, has little impact on book sales. IOW, if you come up with an 'unbreakable' DRM model, you won't see adramatic increase in e-book sales. You *might* see somewhat of a drop in pirated distribution - but here again, unless we implement a world-wide registry and monitoring of scanners and digital cameras, it is highly unlikely that you will see the problem disappear. And no one would want to live in such a world.
I suppose you could make it mandatory that anyone who purchases a device capable of reading an ebook be forced to pay a generic, monthly or yearly, license fee comparable to the cost of the average number of ebooks a person might read. This would be expensive for those, such as myself, who have ten ereading devices - but what the hell, it's for the authors! (Naturally, despite no real cost on their parts, the publishers woul get the lion's share of this money, with most of the rest going to the government agencies managing this, At least the authors would get 1%-3% of this 'recovery fee'.)
What I don't understand is *who* these 'others' are? Clearly you do not mean the retailers, agents, publishers or authors. Do you mean pirates are 'stealing' from the disabled, poor or children?
Derek