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Originally Posted by stonetools
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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You're seriously suggesting that best-selling authors would stop writing novels if DRM was abolished, not because of large scale piracy through torrents (which obviously already happens) but because people who've bought the book might share it with friends?
Do you have
any evidence for this at all?
Whereas I have provided evidence that the removal of DRM from digital music appears to have had no effect on the growth in sales of digital music.
Any effect on publishing sales from unauthorised copying of ebooks will happen whether or not the publishers use DRM.
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Originally Posted by stonetools
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".
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I think we have repeatedly made effective arguments as to why publishers should give up DRM. You just choose to ignore them, and the next time you pop up you act as if they have never been stated.