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Originally Posted by gmw
Curious ... I don't know quite what else to say. Is there any reason to think that the numbers of such people would be significant versus, for example, those that, being happy to make a legitimate purchase but don't just like DRM and simply strip it? (These latter appear to be reasonably common, at least from what I've seen in past conversations on this forum.)
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But that wasn't the question or the conversation.
VS opined that DRM
encourages piracy and gave a very valid example of people who look for DRM free versions rather than try to strip, convert, etc.
Whether or not that very likely small group outweighs another group has nothing to do with VS' original opinion.
Another way that DRM
encourages piracy is if you consider the very act of stripping DRM to be "piracy" then anyone who buys an Amazon exclusive with DRM, strips the DRM, and loads it to another reader is
pirating.
Even if the book is available at multiple stores, that doesn't necessarily solve the problem -- a Nook owner who moves to Europe is going to have trouble buying from B&N since they don't sell overseas.