Thread: Should I DRM my own ebook when selling?
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Old 09-01-2011, 08:57 AM   #33
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by avantman42 View Post
I've not seen anyone suggest that DRM is a useful legal tool before. Why do you say that? Is it because it's illegal to circumvent DRM in some jurisdictions?
In part. But also, using DRM is a defacto indication that the author/publisher intends for the material to be protected from undesired uses like copying and dissemination, unless they say otherwise. That can carry weight in a court of law.

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PDF should be avoided like the plague!
Don't listen to him! Your highly-technical reading on their work PC audience will thank you! (Hey, is that Kool-Aid in Harry's cup? Knock it away!)
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