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Originally Posted by stonetools
Well I acknowledge that you CLAIMED that. The evidence of the music industry is quite the contrary. Hell, the strudy that YOU cite says grudgingly admits that piracy is responsible for 20 % of the decline.
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Is there any indication that DRM'd music had less filesharing than non-DRM'd music?
We're not claiming piracy never cuts into sales; we're saying that lack of DRM doesn't cause that piracy. If DRM'd and non-DRM'd titles are pirated at the same rates, the DRM isn't saving any money.
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Let's see you answer a question. How do you know that sales of nonDRM books wouldn't have been even greater than they were had they had DRM?
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Because O'Reilly used to sell DRM'd ebooks; they removed the DRM, and sales more than doubled.
Because some of Konrath's books are available with DRM, and some without, and the ones without sell a lot more. (Of course, they're cheaper, too. Apparently, higher prices+DRM is not a winning sales combination.)
We admit there's not a lot of hard evidence; not many companies have done both DRM and non-DRM offerings, and books aren't quite fungible: you can't compare sales of 2 random different books, one with DRM, one without, and use that to prove anything. But among the few bits of data we have, removing DRM has never made sales worse.