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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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You can't use the numbers for *piracy* to justify using DRM to stop *casual sharing.*
I would also submit that anyone who has what it takes to share dozens of copies also has what it takes to strip DRM.
The only people DRM stops from sharing are people who don't understand it except that they can't give a copy to a friend or family member or read it on their new device.
If someone wants badly enough to share a book with lots of people, they can easily google up that stripping is a few clicks away - easier than setting up their printer and no harder than installing a browser.
Publishers know this. They try to use big numbers to pretend all they care about is avoiding serious losses, but everything they
do (like disallowing even so much as the lending of a book for 2 weeks, to one person, in that book's entire lifetime) shows that they are trying to stop even sharing with a friend or family.