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Originally Posted by Boston
Publishers and authors say they can learn from their peers in music, who alienated fans by using the courts aggressively to go after college students and Napster before it converted to a legitimate online store.
“If iTunes started three years earlier, I’m not sure how big Napster and the subsequent piratical environments would have been, because people would have been in the habit of legitimately purchasing at pricing that wasn’t considered pernicious,” said Richard Sarnoff, a chairman of Bertelsmann, which owns Random House, the world’s largest publisher of consumer titles.
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I so agree with this... I really think that if content is available, in electronic format, with a decent price, less people would download from the darknet. I think authors should look at themselves first if they find an illegal version of a book. Maybe they should make a legal version, if people really want it...