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Originally Posted by anamardoll
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.
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If only a handful of people do it then "encourages piracy" seems an extreme description of the situation ... it seems to me. But maybe it's just me. This does potentially devolve into an argument similar to the one about whether cartoon (or movie) violence encourages people to to be violent. If it effects one or two people like that, is it really "encouragement", or just one of those things that happens?
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Originally Posted by anamardoll
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.
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Generally speaking, I think what you do in the privacy of your own home is your business, provided you don't hurt anyone else.
If you strip DRM but continue to use the material under the other conditions that cover copyrighted material, then the only thing you have broken is the license condition saying you must not remove the DRM. So, no, I would not say that stripping DRM is, of itself, a form a piracy. It is merely a violation of that one the license condition, which has nothing to do with copyright.
It's what you do later that may make you guilty of violating copyright and so guilty piracy. And what you do later you can do as easily with non-DRM material as you can with material from which you have stripped DRM. At least that's my interpretation.