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Originally Posted by stonetools
BTW, if you know of another way to achieve that purpose -to prevent technologically unsophisticated consumers from freely sharing books across networks of families and friends- please post.
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One of the key issues is that technologically unsophisticated consumers have shared books, music, games, and movies with each other for as long as we've had them. All of a sudden, they're told to change the way they deal with entertainment and education--that it's one-person-only, and it's *immoral* to want it to be otherwise.
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NO ONE on this forum -despite numerous condemnations of DRM - has ever come up with a satisfying alternative. Generally, they say authors should just suck it up and take their losses.
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What "losses?" My husband and I have never bought multiple copies of a book so we each can read it. My kids don't yet have the income to buy substantial numbers of books of their own. I have friends living on fixed income disability checks; they don't buy new books ever--but they recommend the books they like to their friends who do. But if they can't read used copies, those authors don't get promoted.
It's never before been a "loss" for a book to have more readers than buyers.