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Originally Posted by teh603
You're missing one of the key points to this whole issue- that the only people actually stopped by DRM are honest users trying to do such legal things as make a backup copy in case their reader gets stolen or destroyed. Theft will still happen regardless of how tight a security you put on an ebook, but making a backup copy for your own personal use is definitely not theft.
Sounds more to me like them and their "Rights Holders" are just sore that they've lost the ability to serve as a gatekeeper to publishing. Would some of those "Rights Holders" also be the ones who legally steal copyrights from new authors using abusive Work For Hire contracts that only pay a pittance?
Edit: Now that I think about it, if you're that willing to let big business and these anonymous "Rights Holders" dictate what the people will buy, you're also ignorant of one of the cornerstones of Capitalism- demand. It doesn't matter how much supply of DRM ebooks you have, if people demand non-DRM ones then that's what they'll buy and leave your DRM ebooks rotting on the digital shelf.
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I am not going to look it up, but I have already covered this.
If the public doesn't like DRM, they have the right to boycott the author, or the publisher, or the seller, or all of them until they change their ways. That is perfectly legal.
As for what people do in their own homes to their digital books, who is going to know. If someone tries to commercialize a method for removing DRM or to sell eBooks that they don't have the rights to, then when they get caught they will be prosecuted.
And if some person uses a silly argument that I or another rights holder have indentured authors in work camps producing the works that are being sold, well that person should get into writing themselves. Perhaps fanciful fairy tales would be up their alley.