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Originally Posted by ltr
Do you not feel that DRM reduces the lending and copying of books for the majority of the ebook reading public?
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No more than I think that DRM reduces the lending and copying of music and film. That is: it doesn't. At least, it doesn't seem to, and everything available in DRM form is also available as an illegal copy.
I can deal with books containing embedded advisory restrictions as a barrier to casual copying of things like time-loaned library books, the same way PDF contains a security policy system to ask user agents not to let the user copy & paste text, etc. It's not pretending to magically prevent that work EVER being copied, it's just stopping someone from casually ignoring rules about its use. They can still go get a copy elsewhere and using DRM that way isn't even trying to pretend otherwise. It also doesn't impair people who want to use screenreaders, people who want backups, etc etc etc.