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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
People can take photos of the page views and then either turn them into pdf's or run them through a character recognition program. But that takes a while to do and has imperfect results. Such piracy might not start until the book had been on the market for a while, and many potential downloaders would reject the book due to quality issues.
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Currently published books already often have errors in them. Having to OCR the book would delay it reaching the pirate sites by a matter of minutes. If the book is in paper, it can be scanned, OCRed and on the pirate sites in a matter of minutes.
Even if there were an uncrackable DRM (about as likely as a square circle), it would be easily circumvented. All you would need would be an e-reader application for the computer. You set up a script which turns the page, takes a screen shot, and runs it through the OCR. You come back in a couple hours, and the book is ready.