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Old 10-09-2010, 03:27 PM   #106
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Originally Posted by Dave_S View Post
I wonder where you got the idea that there was any "waiting time", since DRM removal is very nearly instantaneous?
For instance, Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol" was available on the "darknet" the very same day that it was released in the USA. DRM definitely did not limit or slow down the spread of digital content in that case. In some sense it even seems that DRM actually encourages piracy since the pirates seem to compete among themselves to see who can get something out the fastest, especially in the case of highly hyped releases.
But not that much in other books. There isn't really (so far) any serious piracy community to release ebooks. It is no real issue for the top10, but below that you get pretty large gaps pretty quickly.
Without DRM *anyone* could fill them. With it only people willing to learn how to remove it can, which is a far smaller group (not because it is hard, but simply because people just cannot be bothered).

And DRM is not = DRM. To take the in this apsect more evolved game industry - there are games which are available at the day of commercial release. And then there are (major, top10) games which take literary *months* to get cracked.
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