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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
But generally people who will share something casually are not going to sit down and break DRM. They aren't that interested. The DRM serves as a reminder that "oh yeah, I'm not supposed to share." Make it too easy and you can have a disaster.
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The problem is that pirated books don't have DRM -- it has already been stripped by the pirates. It is only the person who buys the book legally who has to deal with the inconvenience of DRM or learn how to strip it themselves.
How much use is it to make the casual sharing of ebooks more difficult when even for DRM-free books it is already easier just to google and download a pirated copy than it is to work out how to copy it from one device to another.