{"id":10295,"date":"2012-01-26T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2012-01-26T10:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T15:09:53","slug":"what-motivate-an-ebook-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10295","title":{"rendered":"What motivates an eBook Pirate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"eBook Piracy and the people who do it...\" href=\"http:\/\/goodereader.com\/blog\/e-book-news\/ebook-pirates-the-reasons-why-people-do-it\/\" target=\"_self\">GoodeReader<\/a><\/strong> speculates on the types of people who take part in <strong>eBook Piracy<\/strong>, and offers some solutions to the underground movement of digital editions.<\/p>\n<p>I still think the price of eBooks is the biggest motivation for <strong>eBook Piracy<\/strong> and <strong>illegal file sharing<\/strong>. It&#8217;s too easy to justify downloading pirated content when the easily copied, stored and manufactured item is priced similar to its real-world equivalent. (In this case hard covers and paperbacks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoodeReader speculates on the types of people who take part in eBook Piracy, and offers some solutions to the underground movement of digital editions. I still think the price of eBooks is the biggest motivation for eBook Piracy and illegal file sharing. It&#8217;s too easy to justify downloading pirated content when the easily copied, stored &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=10295\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,6,12,15,14,16,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10300,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions\/10300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}