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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMSkarka" data-source="post: 4749593" data-attributes="member: 763">It still makes no sense:First:  "We can track it" -- If piracy was that easy to track, there wouldn't be any piracy.   You can estimate, but you're probably wrong.But just going with sample "X" figures -- if your sales looked like this:100X = printed sales10X = pirated PDFs1X = legitimate PDF sales.Getting rid of the 1X in legit sales doesn't do a damn thing but lose you the money from those sales.    A large segment of the 10X pirates were never going to be customers in the first place -- they just grabbed it because they could.   In addition, even without the legit PDFs to use as source, you're still going to have 10X pirated -- they'll come from book scans, production files (y'know, like the CORE BOOKS were?), etc.So all they're doing is irritating customers, and leaving the legit PDF money on the table.The trends on this kind of thing and the failures of past responses are well-documented.   There's an entire array of study and dissection of ePublishing, digital commerce and piracy, yet it seems like nobody is bothering to educate themselves on it before making decisions.</blockquote>