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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Please re-read my full post.
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Let me spell it out for you for you.
The claim that piracy exists, or even grows, in the absence of DRM
does not imply that DRM does not encourage piracy. The only way you can use an empirical study to imply that is if your study managed to magically contrast two scenarios:
1) Remove DRM, wait two years, measure change in piracy
2) Rewind time, do not remove DRM, measure change in piracy
Now compare the change in piracy rates of 1) and 2). And even that is really just an educated guess in a system as complex as human society.
The best that can be done on this subject is to point out ways that the existence of DRM could affect piracy.
I pointed out one such way, it raises the relative value of pirated products.
If you want to argue that the existence of DRM discourages piracy, then you need to point to ways that the existence of DRM provides a disincentive to piracy. I can't think of a single one, can you?