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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Authors have no protection today - why do they need protection tomorrow?.
DRM does not protect anything.
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Yes, they do have protection today. A paper book, the kind of book 99 % of all people worldwide read, cannot be copied without investing a lot of time and money (paper) and even then does not resemble the original very much. An ebook without DRM can be copied in seconds even by Grandma using her computer for the first time. And not even that - it can be copied indefinitely without loosing anything compared to the original. Paper books have a far better copy protection than even an ebook with DRM will ever have. So DRM only ads a few layers of protection.
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Authors do not own the stories they write - they have only a copyright, not an ownership, of their works.
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Exactly. So what was your point?
Alan