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Originally Posted by Synamon
I absolutely agree that "getting an infringing copy for free is the easiest of all options". Not from sharing though, anyone with a computer can download pirated ebooks. DRM free in whatever format you want, right to your Downloads folder in under a minute. Sweet. This is the part of the equation everyone is trying to pretend doesn't exist.
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No one is pretending it doesn't exist. Everyone is agreeing that we're not likely to stop it, and DRM is essentially irrelevant to that kind of piracy.
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It is easier to download a pirated copy of a book than it is to buy it. No credit card, no account, no geographic restrictions, no DRM. This is what authors who want to get people to buy their book are competing with.
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I realize it's hard for some people to believe, but most people do not know their way around the darknet, could not get a torrent if they wanted to, and could not find a way to get stuff from a downloaded RAR file to their reader with two hands a map and a flashlight.
They find it very easy to push "Buy now" and they find it just as easy...and free...to let their book club friend or brother-in-law who has a book they want make a copy and put it on their reader for them.
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Why "blech" for iBooks? It's the most locked down format, shouldn't you be praising it?
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...only if I were to undergo a 180 degree change of opinion.
(For reference, see, well, just about every other post I've made in this thread.)