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Originally Posted by sonofpendragon
Hmmm, not sure what to think now. I have thought about this, but upon asking a programmer if it was an easy thing to do on a shoestring budget and a PC World £400 special, he said yes, but he also definitely did not recommend it. He said there were no problems, none at all, with setting it all up as needed, including the cart, but he also added that digital theft is so easy and is such a massive problem, that hosting and selling is still best left to the big boys, as he put it, to do this on our behalf. That was enough to put me off, but each time I read a thread like this, I go back to the 'I wonder if. . .' state.
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If you mean piracy, the big boys are pirated a lot more than the small boys, so whatever they are doing to stop it obviously isn't working. But according to UK government statistics, only 10% of the population downloads unauthorised content, so that still leaves the other 90% either paying for it or doing without. Compared with the market for second hand paperbacks or library loans, that's a tiny figure to worry about.