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Originally Posted by kranu
Take one of the most popular software companies out there: Adobe. All of their software requires this complicated activation process, in which you must connect to the internet, run your serial by Adobe's licensing server, and then register your product. I'm not going to claim that this stops the software from being cracked, but it does in fact deter crackers.
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No, it doesn't deter crackers. It only deters a lot of legitimate customers. The procedure is too difficult for a general person that many simply don't care and buy a Kindle instead. Once I had to spend a couple of hours to figure out why I can't download and read Adobe DRM protected book that I had bought from Kobo. I contacted Kobo technical support and they said that they have to reset something etc. and after two days they did. Extremely inconvenient, if you ask me. So, then I decided that I need to remove DRM to avoid future problems (and also to read a book on a Kindle) and that part was much easier to do.
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From the user's standpoint, it's little more than a one-time hassle, where they need to wait a couple seconds for the process to complete.
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I think that any serious problems to a reader due to DRM is only going to change a user's moral stance regarding the sharing.
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Maybe that statistic is true. However, that 1% of cases get uploaded to the internet, and that's what matters; only one copy of a book needs to be uploaded to the internet. When I wrote my post yesterday, I ran a search, and I found plenty of 'retail copy' torrents.
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That 1% will find a way to remove DRM in either case. Most pirated books are scanned pdf copies, so in the extreme case one could make a series of screenshots.
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Many people feel guilty about breaking DRM, or feel (rightly) worried about downloading books from online.
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So, if people are following the rules then replace DRM with a legal notice that sharing is bad. It looks that you agree with me.
As I said your friends usually are not that interested in what you read anyway. Any loss of sales would be minimal. It is the same as for music. Only sharing and downloading from torrents is potentially risky. If you friend buys an album and gives you to listen, it is not a big issue.