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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
But even copyright won't work when everyone decides to just rush for the doors, past the cashiers. That's the issue here: How do we make people act fairly and honestly, when they perceive that it's too easy to just rush the doors?
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I repeat: There is actually NOTHING but the copyright law that prevents them from doing so AS IT IS.
DRM changes drek about that. It is much too easy to circumvent or rightout break DRM - and those books are available on the darknet. Only the law (not caring about DRM that law...) and a sense of "morally right" or "fair" makes e-book-readers buy your books.
So - DRM changes nothing for your security as an author and annoys your customers.
What can you do to make people buy your books? Make it easy for them. Make it comfortable. If it is more comfortable then the darknet - people will buy those books not "steal" them.
But really - this is a serious question: Why are you assuming that copyright will vanish?