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Old 01-29-2011, 09:03 AM   #94
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Great, just sent a report to my managers arguing against DRM on our entire range of ebooks about to be released and found this thread less than 24 hours later. I know anyone can circumvent DRM if they want to but my argument was the majority of readers are honest.
The majority of readers don't care one way or the other. It is convenience that is most important to them. Take that away and you really shouldn't be surprised if they look elsewhere.

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Another point. I accept that pirates pass on pirated material but if it was your hard earned money that bought that ebook or Adobe program how quick will you break that DRM and pass it on for free?
You'd be surprised how many will. I've also seen them posted with DRM still intact.
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