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Originally Posted by sirmaru
Of course pirate sites could not operate at all if DRM could not be removed.
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Of course they could. It's true that stripping DRM off a legally bought ebook gives pirates an easy way to upload and share books, but there are many, many pirated books around that don't even exist as official ebooks and never have.
The Harry Potter books were around as very good "unofficial" e-copies (PDF and other formats)
years before official ebooks were made. Same goes for many other books.
If a book exists and can be viewed/read, it can also be pirated, as long as someone wants to do it and has a scanner or a camera. DRM is not an obstacle to pirates or pirate sites; DRM is only something that inconveniences people who buy their books honestly and want to keep personal backups, transfer their legally bought book to a different brand of reader and maybe -
maybe - share a copy with a good friend or sibling, much like they did in the days of paper books, not upload and "share" with the entire world.