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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
So which one do you represent?
Everyone here has been honest about who we are and where we're coming from ... except for you. You clearly don't represent the interests of the readers in your posts, so which is it -- authors or publishers?
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I represent the long view and the unpopular truth.
A no DRM world won't be all sunshine and rainbows, contrary to the prevailing dogma here.
I think authors and publishers need to be assured that they will be paid for work. If they don't feel secure, they'll write screenplays, stage plays, or commercial jingles. They wont write novels for free, don't like being ripped off and don';t like being told that piracy and casual sharing is just "advertising" and something they should "put up with". To paraphrase Neil Gaiman, authors aren't our bitches.
To me, DRM is like copyright-a necessary evil and an imperfect tool meant to prevent the author from being screwed over and an encouragement for the author to do the hard work of writing a novel instead of say, writing commercials.
There are some authors and some publishers that are comfortable publishing DRM free. Most aren't , for what I think are good reasons, and I want to keep reading them, so....