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Originally Posted by Penforhire
One facet the pro-DRM group seems to gloss over is, it ONLY affects legal users. Pirates will always break the DRM, with enough interest they always have. So the key point is DRM is a hassle-factor only for those of us who buy the books anyway!
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One needs to differentiate between the casual pirate and the serious professional criminal. The latter will indeed be unaffected by DRM, but there's a heck of a lot of casual piracy goes on - we must have all encountered that, or perhaps even participated in it; giving copies of CDs to our friends, etc. It's that which DRM prevents.
The true criminal - the person who uploads books to usenet or bittorrent sites - will only be stopped (IMHO) by a few "lock them up and throw away the key" type prosecutions.