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Old 02-18-2014, 07:17 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Difflugia View Post
My guess is that's the exact reason that publishers insist on DRM. I assume that a non-trivial number of sales are to friends and family members (the people likely to be influenced by my "word of mouth" are exactly the people that I would be likely to share with) and publishers believe that those sales will be lost without "hard" DRM.

That, or the publishers' DRM decisions are simply irrational.
But those are the same people that paper books were/are shared with.
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