[ApK]

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 do. I listed it. You quoted it. Refusing to accept it doesn't make it less real.

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

How on Earth do you see that as evidence that it slows down casual sharing?!?
The complaints are 1) about using the ebooks for what people consider non-infringing uses, not copyright-infringing sharing, and 2) mostly from folks here who know how to strip and would not be stopped for second if they wanted to share, but merely want the system changed for reader's benefit.

Do you have any evidence that DRM stopped a single casual share? I, too, presume it must have somewhere but I see no evidence of it.
I do see direct evidence that it has failed to stop it in many cases.

Sure seems like flimsy defense of using it.

(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.

None of that is evidence that DRM slows down sharing and I'm not sure how it's relevant in this context.

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.

So it doesn't help, and turns some people off. Why on Earth use it?
QED.

ApK