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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
People who pirate large numbers of books skew numbers considerably. Let's use the hypothetical person with 40,000 books. If the average Dutch person has 117 books on their reader, that pirate with 40,000 books has 341 times the books of the average person. Let's stipulate that the statistic is correct that 90% of books are not paid for. If you have one person with 40,000 pirated books and 38 people with 117 books - all paid for - that would come out to 90% of books not being paid for. But it would be misleading to say that on the average reader, only 10% of the books were not paid for, in this scenario, 97.4% of readers would have paid for books. I am not saying this is actually the case, but the number of books pirates download do tend to skew numbers.
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I agree on that. The numbers of real eBook pirates is probably very LOW. However, the number of eBooks they pirate is probably very high. But those pirates are WASTING their time.
For most removal of DRM is just for backup. However, in my opinion, that is a waste of time.
MS eBooks for Window 98 cannot be read anymore in Windows 8.1 or on any eReaders. Their structure was different than the eBooks of today. Whether they had DRM or not is irrelevant to the fact that, even if backed up with DRM removed (if they even had any DRM) would still not make them readable today.
There were even eBooks available for my old TRS 80 from 1978. There is no way they could be read today with or without DRM removal.
In the future it is highly LIKELY that eBook STRUCTURES will change and neither Calibre nor Apprentice Alf will make the old eBooks legible on the new operating systems and the new eReaders.