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Originally Posted by webroot
Lets us hypothesis a world where drm is non existent, then everything can be obtained for free is there a possibility for a new culture that wants everything for free and never likes to pays. I mean when nobody is paying why should the rest should pay? if you know what is culture!
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Surely you are aware that, for anyone who doesn't think they should pay, any book with any sort of demand is on the darknet day of release, if not sooner. DRM doesn't stop that. It never did - because it existed before DRM, before ebooks.
Anything that can be read by the end user can be pirated. Period. NOTHING can stop that aspect of things.
That's not what DRM does. And any publisher with a brain knows that. That's not what they are trying to stop with DRM.
Do you know what an obscure mobile-only, always-online DRM would do? It would increase downloads from the darknet, because it would cross the line for what a lot of people are willing to put up with and some would just go download it instead. Others will simply go buy a different book that doesn't have that.
I know for me, if reading ebooks required in internet connection beyond the initial download, I wouldn't be buying ebooks anymore. Period.