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Originally Posted by VydorScope
There have been a couple studies that indicate that(check google) might be the case, and in my personal experience I have seen it, and posts in this thread state indicate that others have seen it. Its far from a open closed proof case, but I hold that opinion (note I always try to qualify it as my OPINION not a fact). [...]
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I am not trying to be argumentative, seriously, I'm not. But how have you seen this in personal experience?
It may be that, since I haven't actually published anything I've written yet, I don't understand some of the mechanics involved. But it seems to me that if a book is DRM protected and you find it on a site with the DRM removed then you conclude it has been pirated and made available on that site for the convenience of others. BUT if your non-DRM protected doesn't appear on that site, you can't conclude that it hasn't been pirated. If there is no DRM there was no need for a pirate to make an unprotected version available, people can already share the book directly. So how can you measure the difference?