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Originally Posted by Rizla
It's a question of two parts:
First of all: is digital (and I'm talking e-book) copyright incompatible with technology? Piracy has proved resilient. Can piracy be physically halted? The methods of piracy AFAIK are 1) torrents, 2) download sites and 3) usenet.
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Those are just the current methods of "piracy". What it really comes down to is, if two people have a way of exchanging information and a desire to do so, then they'll find a way to do it. The methods are irrelevant.
There's no way anyone is going to be able to prevent people from exchanging information, so trying to go after it from that angle is futile. What they should be doing is worrying less about "stopping piracy" and worry more about making their product more attractive to their potential customers. Better quality, lower price, more convenience... etc.
Instead of wasting time and money on DRM and lawsuits, they should be looking more closely at why people don't want to buy their content.