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because reading a book takes much more time than listening to a song or watching a movie.
by informatimago 12y ago
because reading a book takes much more time than listening to a song or watching a movie.
- coralreef 12y agoI don't understand how that affects the ability to pirate them. I can find almost any song, tv show, or movie on torrent. Finding ebooks is much harder.
- lazyant 12y agoBesides availability like you mention, what parent is saying (I think) is that you may go an pirate a movie because it's just 1.5 hrs of entertainment and then you won't see it again, and maybe it wasn't even that good, so it's harder to fork over the money. But you'll stay with an ebook for a few days (and perhaps revisit afterwards) so you feel you get more value, so you are more ready to pay.
- mod 12y agoI got a different impression. To watch 10 hours worth of movies, one needs to pirate 5 of them. To read 10 hours of books, one might only need to pirate 1. Therefore less books are pirated, given you'd spend a proportionate amount of time there. In response to OP, I think clearly not as many people read books as watch movies.
- lazyant 12y agothose are good points too