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Originally Posted by tirsales
Yes. But they WILL continue to earn money from MP3 royalties - no matter the drm, it is still forbidden to copy mp3 and it will continue to be so.
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I guess we just disagree on this. IMO, using laws to force a broken business model on consumers will only work so far. I think it's already obvious that there are a LOT of people out there who (intentionally or not) ignore copyright laws with regards to mp3s.
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Will most people break it? No. Not if the deal is fair - e.g. reading the book on multiple readers in your family, etc
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It only takes one person to break it. After that, everyone can easily get copies via digital distribution. The whole idea of DRM is that it's artificially trying to limit the supply (not to mention all of the other restrictions they try to use it for). That's already starting to fall apart in the music world, and to some extent ebooks as well. I think you'd be pretty surprised what you can find available if you looked around for illegal ebooks. Personally I still buy them because I want to support the authors (although I don't have much desire to support the publishers, especially when prices are rediculous), but if I wanted to I could find just about anything I wanted illegally as well.
The horse is already out of the barn, putting a bigger lock on the door won't do any good, especially if there's no such thing as a lock that can't be broken. The main issue isn't how to get the horse back in the barn, the main issue is that consumers don't need barns anymore, and the barn companies are very worried.