Charles Stross Quotes About Piracy
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Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?
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More often than not, piracy is a symptom of an under-provisioned market.
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Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".
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The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy" rate if you insist on looking at it in those terms.
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People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.
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The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.
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