If free becomes legal, search tools and aggregators will become easier and more efficient as methods and tools to view them. The numbers may then be différent.

I think the main idea behind this post was not to fight piracy like they do but focus on their customers.

It will never be possible to stop guys that use legitimate means to gather ebooks, such as using their local libraries overdrive subscription, downloading books legally and then decrypting them.

More on piracy from the same author: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389499

Jaron Lanier would disagree...