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Originally Posted by HarryT
But who's to say that they wouldn't be earning a much better income if their works were not being pirated?
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You are engaged in fallacious reasoning here. Just because a person has pirated something does not mean that he would have bought that something if he had not been able to obtain a pirate copy. So, if piracy were eliminated, more sales are not guaranteed.
And for me at least, drm schemes have the effect of making me buy less, not more. I regularly read on several devices- a couple of tablets, my desktop computers, a laptop. If a drm scheme interferes with reading on any of these devices, I will not buy the product.
My conclusion is that piracy in the digital age is unstoppable without using extreme measures that would kill the ebook market. So work around it. Accept piracy as a market factor, just like shoplifting or shrinkage, and deal with it.