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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
[...]Copyright law is a *mess* right now. It wasn't designed to deal with easy-instant copies, and it assumes that if you legitimately acquired a copy, you can legitimately transfer ownership, temporarily or permanently, to someone else.
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(As I have suggested in a previous post) It could be argued that DRM is one way in which such publishers are aiding their customers: DRM tells the customer they have at least these rights; rights beyond what DRM permits may be questionable; follow what DRM permits and you will be safe. This paints DRM as a
feature, a customer service. Even for me, that's probably pushing things too far, but it's what you are going to get if you want to start arguing about the complexity of copyright law.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
[...]Where are the high sales numbers for any author whose works aren't pirated?
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Do any exist? Are there figures showing "block-buster" sales for authors whose works do not have DRM? How do they stack up against the really big names for those whose works usually have DRM? This is the sort of thing I was referring to as evidence. I don't have it, do you? It seems to me that we are both arguing in the dark here, both us referring only to anecdotal evidence and a "feel" for what the larger picture might be. Without such evidence the circles of this thread, and others, are all that is left to us.