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What do you think about the DRM applied to electronic books to prevent them from being copied and what do you think about piracy?
First of all, we have always had piracy. Some piracy we knew we had, some piracy we didn’t know we had. I would say that the digital medium lends itself to piracy, but practically speaking, no! Theoretically speaking, yes! Who is going to scan a book and put it on the web? To what end? It can happen, but it is going to be incidental, it is not going to be the rule. Forms of piracy will always happen even though they are definitely against the law. Publishers will always defend their rights in court if necessary. However, I do not think that there is going to be a threat to intellectual property. Of course you have to remain vigilant and you have to enforce copyright rules, but some form of piracy, alas, will always be with us. DRM is a good step in the right direction that helps prevent worse things to come. So, it is positive.
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just balancing things out here.
Guess he is not as super duper wonderful and far sighted now!
Signed,
Kaiser Soze