Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Sorry to respond late.
From your post I got the impression that you had evidence that it (DRM)doesn't work. Evidence based on more than opinions, surmises or likes and dislikes.
I agree that DRM does not stop piracy. Probably does not even slow it down a smidge. Book piracy has been pretty common for a long time, long before the internet was commonly used.
I do think it slows down casual file sharing between strangers.
My evidence is no more concrete than yours. It is based on the amount of people who complain about DRM in a bitter manner (not yourself, but those who refer to it as a disease or infestation when it is clearly not either as it doesn't spread from one book to the next) or feel that it infringes their traditional rights/priveledges with paper books.
For example:
You cannot resell an ebook:
I have heard that some stores will buy back ebooks at a better price percenatge than used book stores? And in many communities their are no used book stores so not a right really.
You cannot let your family read your book:
Of course you can, just trade readers for a bit. I do it with my mother all the time.
You cannot read it on another device:
Well that is just silly as you can read Amazon/Adobe DRM books/etc. on most tablets, PCs and pretty well any ereader that can be rooted. And you don't have to chop of their spines and scan them.
As I said before, I do not think DRM enhances sales in that many people say this book has no DRM so I will not buy it, but I think that the percentage of people put off by DRM is pretty low in the general population. And most will buy it anyway if it is what they want.
Helen
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