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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
...you shouldn't have left out the purchase of DRM-free books. I purchase from Baen, Phoenix Pick (Arc Manor), and the various "Bundle" offerings. All of these are legitimately purchased, but need to be sideloaded into my Kindle. Since they are DRM-free, there's no stripping required, but your only option for purchased content specifically stated "strip from DRM".
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That's a tricky one and I still don't know how it could be solved/phrased in a poll.
I'm interested about the piracy aspect.
Yes, pirates will have free stuff as well and might not even know or make a distinction.
But I was interested in the aspect about pirating stuff. Yes, pirates can spread DRM-free content and this still was pirating. But I'm explicitly interested in the aspect "I know that I'm pirating, because I had to strip from DRM". So, if the pirate in this concept has to strip from DRM, it makes most sense to compare to the same for the none-pirates.
It's complicated, I admit it.
But again:
It's that very small niche that interests me.
I don't want to try to get the whole picture about piracy.
So:
Pirate --> stripping from DRM (there are other ways to pirate, but I wanted to make that distinction, to be sure the pirate is aware of pirating) --> sideloading.
And the honest user the very same. Compare the very same process, with the only difference of the legitimacy about getting the content in the first step.