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Originally Posted by ApK
[...]We can guess that some sales may have been saved by some folks who could not get their hands on a free copy because they didn't know how to strip DRM, but if we're guessing, we'd also have to subtract from those sales the guesses of LOST sales from anti-DRM folks who may have bought it if it didn't have DRM. And that's just in dollar values, not in goodwill and convenience to consumers.
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We've reached the top of the circle again, I think. Unless you're "in" with one of the publishers it is impossible to guess what they actually know. My
guess is that the anti-DRM folks are probably an insignificant proportion of all ebook sales, similarly my
guess is that the people that currently and actively search for pirate ebooks (over the convenience of shopping in places like Amazon) is likely to be insignificant when compared to the number that would share ebooks without thought for the legality if DRM wasn't there to ... remind them. BUT without actual figures to support or deny these guesses we are doomed to starting the circle yet again.