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Originally Posted by ApK
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.
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.
 ...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.) |
Well everyone seems to have an opinion. How many of the gainsayers have ever complained about DRM to their publisher or distributor? If not maybe now would be a good time to do it. Send off a polite, nicely worded email to whoever is asking you to put DRM on your work and tell them what you have said in this post. Maybe the groundswell of opinion will put an end to DRM.