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Originally Posted by gmw
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.
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Probably, and I guess the conclusion is that the publishers would go bust without DRM the same way all the record companies went bust when music started being distributed in non-DRMed MP3s....oh wait...they didn't!
But, yes, we've both said all this before (yet we continue to get asked, so maybe we're not stating it clearly enough) and while the evidence I've repeatedly listed is not proof, it is evidence, and the guesses, while reasonable, are just guesses and not evidence, so I'll ask one more time (to complete the circle) what evidence is there that DRM works for the good of authors? And, again, the mere fact that it is used, and the world has not exploded, is not evidence that it works. Can we agree on that?