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Originally Posted by HarryT
But does it? Can it be demonstrated that removing DRM from music has resulted in a reduction in music piracy? I think you'd be very hard-pressed to show that!
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I'll be honest; I don't know if removing DRM from music has had any measurable effect on music piracy one way or the other. However, for the purposes of the argument I don't care either.
Piracy is impossible to measure accurately so I'm not even going to try.
My question is whether removing DRM increases overall sales and net revenue, not whether it reduces piracy. Increasing sales
should have a similar net effect to reducing piracy, and it's much more quantifiable.
So back to the music industry.
The real question is: "Can it be demonstrated that removing DRM from music has resulted in an overall increase in profitability?"
If removing DRM from music correlates with increased profit for the music industry then it is
better for the industry to remove DRM whether it affects illicit downloads or not.
I'm not saying that preventing piracy is either bad or unnecessary, but that increasing sales and revenue is both more important and much easier to measure.