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Old 07-16-2011, 06:20 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daniel_ View Post
I had a conversation with some friends at work, and we were wondering if there was piracy in eBooks yet? I've never really thought about it, but have no idea of the answer.
What do you mean "if"? What do you mean "yet"?

Piracy of ebooks has been around for years, and today it's pretty rampant. Some are scans, while others are actually typeset PDFs. Lots of audiobooks too.

I'm not sure about the Kindle, but other ereaders make it easy to put just about any compatible file onto it manually. You can download ebooks of all kinds off the Internet. It's not that difficult to find them if you've downloaded other media types that way.

Not that I'd know or anything, but I think that pirating ebooks would be easier to do than music and movies. Smaller file sizes are just one part of that.
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