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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1540242" data-attributes="member: 177">I don't ignore that point at all.  There are some folks who would pay the lower price if it were available.  There are some who would not.  Unfortunately, the pdf business is small.  I would not be surprised if the occasional cut-rate sale would improve things for the vendors, but there's no good way to publicize.  Even EN World only reaches a small fraction of the market.  The point about lost sales is not that there are no thieves.  It is merely that pdfs are not televisions.  If one takes a television out of a warehouse, there's a clear loss to the company who built that TV.  But for electronic media, without the warehouse and the physical objects, we must be a little more careful about how we calculate the economic losses involved in theft.  This is not to say that there is not loss, and bad habits formed.  But in considering what we should do about it, we have to be fairly careful in our deliberations.Yep, if one is a bit weak in the ethics, and/or a bit short sighted, that is likely to happen.  However, I should note that the door was opened back when the floppy disk was invented, and it isn't going to get closed unless we suffer catastrophy that knocks us back into pre-computer technology.  For purposes of this discussion, there's no such thing as unbreakable copy-protection.</blockquote>