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Originally Posted by Zorz
I think O'Reilly is the perfect example of why DRM is really useless. They dont DRM their ebooks, though those non drm'ed books never show up in ebook piracy circles. What do you guys think?
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I understand what you meant, but I think the way you phrased the question is a little confusing. There are pirate copies, but they don't usually come from the eBook versions. A better example would be the Harry Potter series. Those are definitely on pirate sites, but they don't exist as commercial eBooks (DRM or not).
The way I would say it is that DRM does not prevent piracy, and the lack of a digital version does not prevent piracy either.
Once an author makes their work available (either digital or physical), there will be some segments of the public that are going to do things with that work that the author doesn't like. There's no way to stop that from happening. Whether or not they like it, publishing their work means they lose control of it.