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Originally Posted by sabredog
I think you will find that the hard core pirates would not change but there are a lot of "casual" pirates that would. Those include legitimate purchasers of ebooks who cannot get an ebook in the format their ereader displays, are geographically restricted or find the price of ebooks expensive.
You cannot and should not make broad assumptions that ALL pirates will not change.
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This post suggests that you have bought into the idea, presented by the
DRM proponents, that just removing the DRM is an act of "Casual Piracy".
Simple "format shifting" causes no lost sale. You would have to believe
that everyone should be required to buy a seprate copy for each device
they may want to read the ebook on. Either that, or they should not be
allowed to buy the ebook from a retailer that offers the book in a format
for a device that they do not own. In fact "format shifting" increases the
purchasing options, for ebooks.
Luck;
Ken