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Originally Posted by R J Askew
But creative work should be paid for should it not? A person who buys a pbook can't give it free so a million people as somone online cld. So surely the little author who wants to make a cent as I do needs some bar on his or her work being simply taken as free to anyone who pays a dollar for it. If an author wants free exposure they simply don't opt for DRM. I salute Amazon for allowing DRM. What is the case against it?
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I'm also an independent author, and I too would like to make a few bob. I don't use DRM. I wrote a blog post about the reasons why, partly so that whenever anyone asked why I could simply link to it. So, here it is:
http://russellphillips.wordpress.com...-dont-use-drm/
The main points could probably be summarised as:
It annoys legitimate customers while failing to prevent piracy. Given that, why would I use it?