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Originally Posted by leebase
I concur that there is a similarity. A single copy of a library book is used by many people and the author is only compensated for the one book.
However, the scale and ease of distribution of sharing files on the internet break the comparison to libraries.
Libraries do not have infinite budgets. They can only buy so many copies of an ebook for lending to their customers. Only one customer at a time can read the ebook. As such, with DRM, libraries remain exactly the same with ebooks or with physical books. But it's only DRM that enables this to be true.
Without DRM, a library could buy 1 book, lend it out to a customer, who instantly copies it and puts in on a file sharing site on the internet.
Lee
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Please stop arguing that some random person will get a file out to the rest of the internet! It won't happen, even without DRM. There is no purpose for it because a group of reputable file hosters will already have it out. With or without DRM trying to stop them. The valid part of your argument would be someone sharing locally, with friends and family. Someone who would not otherwise be able to break the DRM themselves.