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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
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.
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This. It pisses me off so much,
as an author, to see an author essentially say: "If you
can strip the DRM, good for you. If you
can't strip the DRM, then RE-BUY MY BOOK if you ever change eReaders."
Do authors not understand how incredibly narcissistic that makes us sound as a group? There are people on Mobile Read who won't buy from indie authors anymore because they've been burned by DRM or by dreadful formatting that converts badly or by an author removing their book for Kindle exclusivity and the reader losing their copy. And the author response has, in many cases, been to say "Well, send me more money!"
I'm not directing this at anyone in this thread, mind you, this is a general comment, but
as an author, it's very painful for me to see authors behave in ways that alienate customers against indies as a whole.
