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Originally Posted by bmfrosty
@Steve
The hassle and promise of hassle of having to deal with DRM will bring a legitimate purchaser to look for alternate sources for their eBooks, and when they find that they can get them easily for free they stop buying. The free alternative will have it's own hassles, but they're almost all certainly smaller than the ones they encounter dealing with bad DRM.
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Take the game "Spore" for example. People bought the game and then downloaded the pirated version as that was much easier to use than the original (heavily DRM'd) one. You set people on the track of illegal downloads that way. And I agree that once people start on it, it's very hard to get them to the legal paths again. Especially if they can get it much cheaper (aka free) and free of all hassle.
In the end EA gave in, and removed a lot of the DRM hassle from Spore. Let's hope the publishers will finally wake up and do the same.