But I am serious. What's unserious is your claim that without DRM large scale casual sharing won't happen, because ... well, just because, I guess (you don't really give a reason.)
You realize,I guess that this isn't convincing because you have a fallback: large scale casual sharing won't (or even CAN'T) affect revenues in the publishing industry because sales of digital goods are somehow unaffected even if the exact same product is widely available for free (at which point the logical response is "WHAAA")
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No, it is not. It is a security blanket that the publishing industry needs to outgrow.
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Another way of putting that is that the anti DRM folks have not really made an effective argument as to why they should give up an admittedly imperfect method of protecting their IP rights against large scale casual sharing. Once you do, and suggest an effective method of protecting said rights , then they will be happy to give up their "security blanket".