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Originally Posted by acidzebra
I don't know if the "quality" argument (I've seen several references to the low quality of pirated ebooks, particularly scanned/OCRed material) will hold in the long term - after all, OCR and other scanning techniques will only get better, and once more DRM-burdened books come out it will be easier for pirates to just strip the protection.
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Right now, most of the pirated works are scans of pbooks, because proper ebook editions don't exist.
Scanning has gotten better (if you feel like pawing for the higher end equipment and software), but what you get after scan and OCR is still a text file. There isn't a convenient automated way to correctly mark that up as an ebook, and I haven't seen a poster provided scans who could be bothered to do it manually.
Plain text leaves a good deal to be desired as a reading format.
As more proper ebooks get ripped, there will be more concern. But agreed, DRM is largely pointless, because it will br broken sooner rather than later. It causes problems for the intended buyer, but poses little challenge for the cracker.
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Dennis