As the iPad hits the million mark for its first month of sales, David Carnoy looks back at Apple’s first portable product, the iPod, and the similar paths the two may take in the world of copyright piracy.
Carnoy doesn’t argue that music piracy originated with the iPod, but rather that the release of the product marked the proverbial shot of adrenaline in the heart of illegal filesharing. With the release of the iPad, Corney predicts a similar fate for ebooks, as well as good old fashion paper book sales. Will the iPad fuel pirates of the written world into greater and greater numbers? Perhaps, especially with pillaging only a touchscreen away.
