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Originally Posted by dgatwood
The problem is, most people will then rid their own purchased eBooks of DRM by downloading a cracked copy from somewhere, and if someone accuses them of copyright violation, they'll trot out their purchased copy as proof that they do have a license for the content. Whether that will hold up in court is anybody's guess, but at least ethically, they'll be in the right to do so.
The bigger problem with that is that the strength of the DRM then draws people to illegal download sites, which makes them statistically more likely to download pirated content that they don't legally own. Thus, even hypothetically near-perfect DRM tends to encourage piracy rather than diminish it, and diminish sales rather than increase it.
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The only problem with this scenario is that it's just not true. Most people here go with Calibre and Uncle Alf and simply de-worm (de-DRM) the books they've
already bought. So all this supposed "danger" of being slowly sucked into the shady world of "illegal download sites" simply doesn't apply. This is a straw man argument. All my books are de-wormed -- all of them were bought from Amazon, or Barnes & Noble, or Google. None of my "cracked" titles were purchased or downloaded from an illegal site. I know the difference between stealing and buying.