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Originally Posted by delphidb96
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.
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I disagree with you on this. Many people would purchase the book if they had not pirated it already.
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Originally Posted by delphidb96
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'.)
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I have never suggested any such strategy for dealing with the problem and would not agree with the idea. However you are way off base with the accusations that the publishers would get most of the money. The truth is that ASCAP is a similar type of organization and passes all but 11.3% that it collects to the musicians. So I have to assume a literary version would do about the same.
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Originally Posted by delphidb96
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?
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Of course I am talking about the agents, retailers, etc. They deserve to earn a living whether you like them or not.