http://faves.com/users/eric/rss?st=user%3aeric++tag%3a%22publishing%22tag%3a%22piracy%22http://faves.com/Your community view of the Web.en-usSat, 26 Dec 2009 08:11:15 GMTSat, 26 Dec 2009 08:11:15 GMTFaves RSS Generator60http://faves.com/images/logo_login.gifhttp://faves.com/14030<p>A great essay on why piracy is not harming legitimate sales of books but DRM is...</p><blockquote><p>Quoted: Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Quoted: 1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Quoted: 2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Quoted: 3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Quoted: Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://faves.com/users/eric/dot/79726160780">Faves Comments: 4</a> | <a href="http://faves.com/Out.ashx?u=http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6&amp;d=79726160780&amp;t=books,publishing,free,DRM,piracy,thepugetnews&amp;ls=rss">View original page</a></p>http://faves.com/users/eric/dot/7972616078020.79726160780Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:09:20 GMTericbooks,publishing,free,DRM,piracy,thepugetnews