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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
DRM is less caused by pirates themselves than by author/agent fear of pirating. To some extent it's a valid fear I guess, in that pirating would be less work for those that do it. Since most of the pirated books out there though aren't from electronic source files, but from scans of pbooks, there's really no point except to lend a false sense of security.
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As I've said before, DRM is like street lighting. There's ZERO evidence that street lighting does anything to reduce crime, but ask people if they want it and they say "yes" because it makes them "feel safer". DRM is just like that from the publisher's viewpoint. If, as a result of having it, we get eBooks that we wouldn't have otherwise had, I'm not going to complain. Trying to persuade publishers that they don't need DRM stands pretty much the same chance of success as trying to pursuade people that they don't need street lighting.