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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Doranna, there are two basic issues:
First, does DRM help prevent piracy of your work? ...
DRM is effective at pissing off the customer...
Second, you got pirated. So what?...
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Dennis
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First of all, thanks for all those thoughts. I'm sorry I snipped them down to representative intro words...I didn't know what else to do, there!
Also, I think maybe I should clarify? I'm not all that upset by the piracy. What I'm trying to figure out is some of what you talked about...ie, the "so what"? of it all. So I'm not wearing my outraged author hat. (What I think of the sites who support piracy while earning advertising bucks is something else again...)
I do think that the ignorance factor is much scarier than the pirating issue, and it's the argument for DRM that gets most of my attention (while not disputing what I've heard here about irritating and inconveniencing the educated reader).