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Originally Posted by ApK
[...] 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?
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I can't answer that first question - like you I have only guesses and the "evidence" that the big publishers continue to use DRM despite its costs. But I do accept that this
may be a behaviour more like the standard company email footers that tell recipients how much trouble they will be in if they get it by mistake and don't immediately delete it ... yeah, right, we really believe that. Which leads to your second question.
Yes I can agree that the continued use of DRM is not incontrovertible evidence that it works. We don't know if it works now, we don't know if it worked in the beginning and we don't know if it will work in the future. And these are all separate questions. The world of ebooks is still changing, what worked and was required at the beginning is not necessarily going to hold true forever.