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Old 01-09-2008, 10:35 AM   #48
Alan
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Originally Posted by astra_lestat View Post
Protect against what?
To protect their work against illegitimate reproducing. To copy a paper book it needs a lot of time. The result will never be like the original. To copy an ebook it needs a second and the result will be exactly like the original.

Sure, you will find ebooks on the darknet even so authors use DRM. But it is clearly illegal and takes some effort to find them. A paper book has still better copy protection but at least the ebook with DRM makes it more difficult to make copies.

Alan
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