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Originally Posted by stonetools
Its amazing that people on this website are now arguing IN FAVOR of lawsuits. Generally, the digerati HATE anti piracy lawsuits and argue they are a costly waste of time. Guess they hate DRM more 
In any case, the RIAA appear to have given up on antipiracy lawsuits as costly and ineffective.
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I think you have to make a distinction between lawsuits against people who download songs vs. the sites that host them. I think it's pointless to try and go after the downloaders, because there are just too many of them, and you gain nothing by suing them. All you do is potentially ruin their lives for a very low return on the court investment. The sites that host the files, though, is another story altogether. Going after a site is actually an effective way of taking down someone's ill-conceived business model, and protecting yourself. Does it do the whole job? No, but it makes things harder for them, and I think that's a good thing.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
II agree with you that DRM is effective against casual sharing, not piracy.Most people on this forum continue to miss that distinction.
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Anyone determined enough is going to be able to remove DRM and distribute e-books illegally. There will always, as long as there's an Internet, be sites like TPB. That doesn't mean that we should make it easier for pirates, but it
does mean that we need to find a way to minimize the pain to people trying to read their e-books without distributing them in violation of copyright.