Again, I think there's a lot of room for a nuanced discussion there. There is a problem! The problem is capitalism! But at this point I want to remind you that this whole thread started with someone going "hur dur this guy writes like a dork."
If nothing else, just at a glance this isn't studying the effects of *piracy* but the effects of *trying to stop piracy* (or not) And one thing I always hear from copyleft types is that "playing whack-a-mole" with takedown requests is pointless because it doesn't even work
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Okay, I skimmed through the article, and one major glaring issue pops up immediately In their discussion of challenges to the validity of this study the authors admit that all of the pirated copies in question are amateur scans of physical books
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Meaning the downloaded files aren't actually that close a substitute for the purchased product, and are often of objectively poor quality They admit that the situation would be very different with pirated ebooks
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Well, they don't know that, because they don't actually have full knowledge or control over what piracy exists, they can only monitor the websites they're looking at
End of conversation
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