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Originally Posted by VydorScope
[...]But to be sure, as I have stated, IMO DRM PROMOTES piracy, and hurts legit readers - therefor I release all of my books DRM Free.  |
I am not at all certain about the "promotes" emphasis, which you have made a couple of times. I certainly agree that it doesn't do anything much to stop it, but actual promotion? Where's the evidence of that?
I would have thought that the only difference was that a DRM "protected" book needs to be actively pirated, whereas a non-DRM can just be copied around - and because it's so easy no even thinks of it as piracy, even though the result and implication is the same, and even if the perpetrator does not realise it (many don't). Looked at in that light, DRM does serve one purpose: it does require that the person acknowledge they are (or may be) acting contrary to the author/publisher's desires.