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Originally Posted by stonetools
IOW, with no DRM, many more honest users would be tempted to steal and would steal e books. You should understand that mobile read forum users are a tiny percentage of ebook users, so you can't generalize from them. DRM does stop the vast majority of casual ebook readers from just stealing ebooks.
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People who would steal if it wasn't for locks aren't honest. Honest users do what's right regardless of circumstance.
As for the casual ebook user, they generally only notice DRM when it gets in their way because they've run out of activations or the server's down or something. Many of them may not even know if it's there or not, so it certainly doesn't dissuade them from "stealing."