Not exact matches
Limiting ebooks this stringently will only push consumers to
illegal download sites to find their reading
material.
The
illegal material are plentiful out there, so the perceived cost of
downloading something and probably having bad feelings about it can be lower than the cost of properly buying it.
However most of these websites (just as youtube - mp3) have an internal cache which stores the already processed mp3 / mp4 files, so if users
download copyrighted
material they will store in their server copyrighted content, thus
illegal distribution.
One proposed solution to the perceived problem would be to make simple possession of offending
material ie
downloading,
illegal — as in child pornography offences.