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Originally Posted by garbanzo
i think you speak more for the people in this particular forum than for ebook downloaders in general...
i couldn't disagree more. i think you undersestimate the pirate community. i know of private forums and torrent sites that literally have millions of members who are not interested in paying for something unless they have to.
i'm not standing up for anybody. i just don't think that the lack of availability of a particular item is good personal justification for pirating it. that doesn't make it OK.
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The people in those forums won't pay for things they download even if you delete the entire internet, so there is no point worrying about any imagined loss of income from them. The publishers would be better off thinking of ways to make money from what they do, either through advertising or some form of voluntary or mandatory subscription model. Which are by a strange coincidence the ways that the operators of such websites are making money from them right now.
The real loss of income to publsihers is from the people who would be happy to pay for their ebooks but for various reasons are unable to purchase them. Those reasons include not having heard of the author, living in the wrong country, having the wrong type of e-reader, or just not being able to afford them. Most, if not all, of those restrictions are directly controlled by the publishers.