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Old 02-01-2011, 12:34 PM   #139
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Originally Posted by Catlady View Post
If the publishers wasted less time and effort on elaborate schemes to prevent piracy, and instead used their resources to provide well-produced e-books at reasonable prices, the problem of piracy would largely go away.
Unfortunately, the evidence does not support your belief.

Specifically, digital music has been available in DRM-free formats from at least 3 retailers (Amazon, Apple, eMusic) for about a year in the US -- much longer for eMusic by the way -- and I have yet to hear of any reductions or fall-offs in music piracy rates.

Similarly, Radiohead offered a new album in a DRM-free, pay-what-you-want (including "free") means, and people still distributed and downloaded the album via P2P sites rather than go to the band's website.

This is not to say that removing DRM offers no benefits or no effects on sales, rather that it just doesn't seem to affect piracy rates.
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