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Whereas the type of piracy that I am referring to, could - in my view at least - mostly be easily avoided, if publishers took the appropriate actions. Of course, there will always be losses from piracy - that's obvious - but publishers seem to be making matters worse for themselves by upsetting the people who they should be looking after, the very people who would very likely actually pay for their product, if only it was priced more reasonably, didn't include DRM and wasn't geo-restricted.
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Didn't we just hear from an author who did all that, and still got pirated? Look if reality differs from your beliefs, its time to adjust your beliefs. |
Indeed, but the same goes for respecting the reality of what a person actually says rather than an "adjusting" it in an effort to prove something else.
He, like most others here, are saying the equivalent of,
"You could lose most of that fat you bemoan if you cut out your daily burgers, fries, and milkshakes."
The truth and value of that advice is not disproved, nor is continued indulgence justified, by the existence of some people with extra pounds who don't eat those things.
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I've been around the barn a few times on DRM, and don't want to reopen the debate here. Suffice it to say that authors and publishers think it necessary to protect their IP rights, and that it is understandable why they think the digerati alternative-no protection whatever- would be costlier than DRM.
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noted last weekend, every time we present a better way to protect (
include the purchaser's receipt information in the ebook's metadata/jacket), all we get is crickets. ...until days or weeks later, when we see you on another thread repeating the accusations that we "digirati" don't care about authors and have no better ideas than DRM.
Why is that? Can you at least tell us why our idea meets with such silence? I've posted my suspicions a couple of times, but to be fair, I would like to hear your explanation.
