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Originally Posted by taustin
The aim of DRM isn't to stop all piracy, it's to reduce it. Reducing it even a small amount can involved big dollars. That reducing piracy isn't the same thing as increasing sales is a point missed by a lot of publishers, but their logic is internally consistent, even if it is beside the point.
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Is there any hard evidence that DRM reduces piracy AT ALL? Certainly any large-scale piracy is not thwarted whatsoever. And any average reader who knows how to Google can learn how to remove DRM in a few minutes. The vast majority of readers probably are barely aware of DRM, since they're not trying to do anything that would require circumventing it.