Book publisher files mass BitTorrent lawsuit

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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

This post suggests that you have bought into the idea, presented by the
DRM proponents, that just removing the DRM is an act of "Casual Piracy".
Simple "format shifting" causes no lost sale. You would have to believe
that everyone should be required to buy a seprate copy for each device
they may want to read the ebook on. Either that, or they should not be
allowed to buy the ebook from a retailer that offers the book in a format
for a device that they do not own. In fact "format shifting" increases the
purchasing options, for ebooks.

Luck;
Ken

Not at all. Far from it in fact. You have completely misinterpreted my comments or my previous ones regarding the blatant lies told by publishers, music and entertainment industry that every download equates to a lost sale..

I do not believe there should be any form of DRM or Geographic Restrictions on ebooks.

If you remove those two alone, then reduction of casual piracy should occur.

I have lost count of how many threads on this forum alone have been created dealing with removal of DRM, non availability of books to certain regions etc. I am also not alone in buying any format I can of a geo restricted book, removing DRM and format shifting to allow me to read that ebook on my ereader. I have paid the author and I can read the ebook.

Undertaking all of that requires a certain level of technical expertise as well as the required software (Alf in a Can). This expertise is something that not all ebook purchasers have though and it is far, far easier for those frustrated customers to start looking down the back alleys of the Darknet to obtain the book they want to buy but cannot.

[Ken Maltby]

I did think it odd that you appeared to be equating format shifting with "Casual Piracy",
(in the part of your post that I highlighted), given your previous postings.
Sorry if I got it wrong.

Luck;
Ken

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Not a worry. I perhaps should have made that post clearer than it was.