Thread: Kindle e-Book piracy accelerates - from CNET
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Old 02-21-2011, 03:42 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by neilmarr View Post
Just goes to show that DRM doesn't discourage pirates ... in fact it encourages them.
And what, exactly, do you base this on?

After all, music has been available DRM-free and rather affordable for what, 2 years now? There are also countless free streaming options, ranging from Internet radio to Spotify to Pandora. Yet music piracy rates are still sky-high, and there are correlations between nations with lax IP enforcement and cratering music sales rates (note: this does not necessarily prove cause and effect).

Plus, this guy and/or his publisher -- Penguin -- seems to be doing about 75% of what many MR peoples demand. The ebook is out at the same time as the hardcover; at $4, not only is it very reasonably priced, but it's a fraction of the hardcover price ($19). It's even agency pricing and still $4. And yet people still pirated it, albeit in almost a drive-by fashion.

I see zero evidence that DRM is what's causing most of the piracy, especially in this case.
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