{"id":47899,"date":"2009-11-24T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091124\/0256097067.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-24T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:39:00","slug":"publishers-getting-the-wrong-message-over-ebook-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/47899","title":{"rendered":"Publishers Getting The Wrong Message Over eBook Piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, you just knew this was going to happen eventually. Suddenly publishers are starting to freak out over “ebook piracy,”<\/a> claiming (totally inaccurately) that they’ve lost $600 million to it. Of course, as some are noting the real problem isn’t “piracy”<\/a> but the industry’s response to it:<\/p>\n


\nThe best way to fight piracy? Got e-book shoppers accustomed to buying from legitimate sources before it’s too late. That means easy downloading, fair prices and the ability to move content easily from machine to machine within a household. Use of the standard ePub format and the end of traditional DRM could go a long way in that regard.
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Instead, they’re likely to go in the other direction (they always do) and try to raise the DRM walls higher in a futile effort to “fight” piracy. Of course, as we discussed nearly a year ago, the ebook industry could really use more piracy<\/a>, because it’s actually a great indicator of what people really want. And, of course, locking up content with more DRM will only serve to take away value<\/a>. If there’s growing piracy, that just means the industry is putting up unreasonable barriers<\/a>. Hopefully publishers realize this before totally screwing things up, but somehow it seems likely they’ll make all the same mistakes as the music industry.<\/p>\n

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Well, you just knew this was going to happen eventually. Suddenly publishers are starting to freak out over “ebook piracy,” claiming (totally inaccurately) that they’ve lost $600 million to it. Of course, as some are noting the real problem isn’t “piracy” but the industry’s response to it: The best way to fight piracy? Got e-book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}