Originally Posted by Worldwalker
So we need more police, and bigger jails, and lock those readers up?
Why not just offer books that the readers can actually use they way they expect to, and avoid the whole issue? It's much cheaper.
Incidentally, I could strip DRM from any book I wanted to, any time I wanted to. Without searching my ebook reader and cross-checking with numerous publishers, nobody would ever know. And if I had any warning, even that wouldn't help them. So punishment is not an issue for me. Yet I do not strip DRM. I do not have someone else do it. I simply do not buy or read DRM-encumbered ebooks. I do not, and never have, read a single ebook that I do not have a legitimate right to. So your premise "everyone is a crook, and only the threat of punishment holds them in check" is false on the face of it.
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