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Originally Posted by Lazer
No disrespect; you are not my book's market. That's not a problem for either one of us. Even if it wasn't DRM protected you would not be interested in a book about analyzing firearms evidence at a crime scene. Am I wrong? Am I missing a market component here?
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What makes so sure that wouldn't interest me, or any other possible buyer who decided to go borrow a library book on the same topic, rather than buy an eBook with DRM?
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Originally Posted by Lazer
And about copyright and patent laws? I think it's pretty damn close to being the same issue and DRM (as poor as it is) and copyright are intermixed. Or am I wrong?
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They are similar, but the example you used was a poor one. What happened to your father was not piracy. If everyone who bought one of his devices made a replica to give to each of their friends, that would have been piracy. What happened to your father is the equivalent of a NYTimes Best-Seller author stealing your next idea, sell it and make million from it, and never sharing the profits with you. Not even close to the same thing as the "email it to all your friends" that you are so worried about.
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Originally Posted by Lazer
I would have absolutely no problem with it. It's your copy. Move it to Calibre and print it if you want. I just don't want to see my copyright violated and somebody trying to distribute it for free
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So since you don't care at all what the buyer does with the book, and it's an established fact that DRM does nothing to stop pirates from distributing a book if they want to, why bother with it? To make yourself feel better? And I don't mean that quite as condescendingly as it comes out, you're hardly alone. The music industry, the movie industry, and the PC gaming industry uses DRM for exactly the same reasons. They all know it doesn't work, but it helps them sleep better at night as long as they can try to pretend it does.
Meanwhile, anyone who wants to pirate your books will continue to do so and there is nothing you can do to stop them.