Thread: Are there any studies PROVING that DRM works?
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Old 09-20-2010, 07:11 AM   #31
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You can't DRM a treebook -- and they're so darned easy to scan that it's paper best-sellers the determined, commercial pirate runs up his Jolly Roger for.

An example is that ebook dowloads of the Harry Potter books have been available on the darknet on their very day of release ... Rowling refuses her publisher digital rights, so ALL these ebooks are pirate copies of scanned paper pages, not ebook thefts.

Ebook DRM is a nefarious scam to encourage multiple sales of a single title to a single buyer. It is an insult to the honest buyer, it restricts common rights of ownership, it causes untold pesky promblems ... and any self-respecting pirate can strip DRM as quickly as you can say, "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum."

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