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Originally Posted by Lucien21
1) lock the file with more and more encryption and DRM and make it impossible to copy. (Short of quantum encryption I don't see this working)
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This is irellevent and doesn't matter. If you can't decrypt the file, you go another way. The publisher has unenrypted version, the author has it, the illustrtor has it. The "weakness" of digital security isn't the systems, it is the people. As long as there are p-books people will scan/ocr them.
Of course, and it's been said 10 thousand times on this forum, only makes it more inconvient for the honest customer. I'm sure you have all heard "locks only keep the honest honest."
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Originally Posted by Lucien21
Neither option will completely eradicate piracy, but might minimise the effect and increase sales. Option 2 would be the desirable model.
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The myth of "piracy" of digital stuff, music, software, ebooks, whatever... is that you loose "$X" estimated based on how many pirated copies you think are out there. Truth is, if your software, etc, wasn't available to someone to get for free from a pirate, the pirate wouldn't download it. But, they certainly wouldn't buy it. If they were going to buy it, they would have done that in the first place.
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