[NTLK] [OT] Economics of piracy

From: Jim Witte (jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 22:49:11 PST


> As for prirating, when a lot of the ebooks are say $4 or less, why
> priate? When a book is say $25
> there maybe a temptation but for $4?

   I wonder if anyone has done a study of that. One way to look at it
is that people will say, "Oh, it's only worth $4. "They" won't mind.."
  No that I condone it, I'm just imagining how people might think..

Jim Witte
jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us
Indiana University CS

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