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Old 01-10-2008, 05:31 AM   #67
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Originally Posted by Alan View Post
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
LIT format is virtually DRM free one.
No one strip LITs files of drm and post them on the darknet.

It is a proof that DRM is useless and unnecessary.

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illegitimate reproducing
takes place when people do not have a legitimate and fair source of the content. DRMed books do not fall into fair source cathegory. Hence, there is darknet. If ebooks were sold DRM-free....most people would just buy them, like they buy LIT files now strip DRM yet do not upload the files to the darknet.
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