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To those who have apparently ceded the "high moral ground," consider that if the majority of people were 100% willing to pay for their goods, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all. (I'll also point out that I do not use, and have never used, DRM to encrypt or secure my content, for reasons made quite clear--and often not-so-clear--on this forum, and leave that right there.)
On a more practical note, yes, there are probably much better ways of securing payments for works than charging the customers who overridingly feel that if they can find it for free easily enough, by all means get it for free. I personally hope and expect to use one of those other methods, not DRM, if I continue to offer e-books in the future.
Advertising/patronage has been mentioned (by me and others), and I agree that this is probably the absolute best way to provide e-content to the public, because it removes them from the payment equation altogether, and therefore doesn't require DRM.
And yes, no one particularly likes ads. But aren't ads that you can choose to ignore a small price to pay for getting the content you want... for free?
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