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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
We can all agree that DRM does not prevent piracy.
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No, we can't.
I suspect that if it even delays by 30 minutes how long it took a book to get onto a pirate site, it prevented a little piracy. Then when there is a takedown notice, it might delay the book's return by a few minutes. And if the pirated book is found a dozen illicit places on the internet without DRM, maybe, with, it's only ten.
This isn't much, but, hey, if it's dinner for a low to midlist author, I'm for it.
Also, while the effect on full-bore piracy is probably too low to measure, the effect on other terms of service violations could be more dramatic. This sounds about right to me:
http://www.idealog.com/blog/drm-may-...protect-sales/
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. . . DRM prevents “casual sharing” (it sure stops me; and I think most people are more like me than they are like my friends who break DRM for sport) and I believe — based on faith, not on data — that enabling casual sharing would do real damage to ebook sales with the greatest damage to the biggest books.
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