$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent(torrentfreak.com)
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$7,000 Fine for Sharing “WordPress For Dummies” on BitTorrent
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When you are sued and do not even bother to respond, generally you can expect to lose.
Let's play evil for a moment here..
Given a reasonably typical sales for a tech book (5k) and a net income of, say, $15 per unit, it could only take 25 "settlements" to nominally match a $75k revenue (let's double it to 50 to cover legal costs). So potential new business model for publishers: publish books, make it relatively easy for them to be pirated, proactively chase easy targets, settle/sue, profit?