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Originally Posted by Catlady
So ... the author/publisher are victims because they think they might be, even though they can't prove it? And the less proof they have, the more victimized they are?
Even if one accepts that cockeyed premise, how in the world does DRM help reduce the paranoia when it's so easy to bypass it?
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Catlady:
I simply meant, when Author X finds his/her book being discussed as being pirated somewhere, and finds it on a bittorrent site, and thus knows that it's been ripped off...what happens then? Authors with resources can, to some extent, find out how many copies, but many cannot.
And yes, to some extent, if you don't have the resources to investigate "how many," that does,
somewhat, in one sense only, make you more of a victim than someone with 10,000 demonstrable copies, simply because you'll never now. The latter would drive me nuttier than the former, but...perhaps that's just me. {shrug}.
Considering that in EITHER case, the author is extraordinarily unlikely to have any success whatsoever in recovering ANY monies, for the "copyright infringement," regardless of what can/may be demonstrated as number of copies downloaded, then they're both victims. Unless you think that they are not entitled to that type of recovery and compensation, either?
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