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Originally Posted by HarryT
But the purpose of a doorlock is not to defeat the professional criminal; it's there to tell the honest person "you're not supposed to go through this door".
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If that were the case Harry, we wouldn't need dead bolts and modern keys... the old skeleton key lock would be all that we would need.
I have a deadbolt on the doors in my house because I want to protect my wife and child from harm. It might not keep the bad guys out, but it hopefully will slow them up enough to give my wife and child enough time to get out the back door (or the front door if the crook is entering through the side).
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DRM is the same. Its purpose is to remind the honest but perhaps misguided user who tries to copy a book for his friends, "sorry, you're not supposed to do that". Obviously it doesn't deter the person who's decided to break the law, any more than a doorlock does.
I'm not defending DRM; just saying why it's there. In an ideal world none of us would need to lock our doors.
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The casual book sharer has never been the cause of real harm to authors. On the contrary, they are likely good advertising for other books the author has written. It is the the professional that has always posed the real risk, and they have always been impossible to stop.
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Bill