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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
First, circumventing DRM on legally purchased media, is in no way piracy of any kind, casual or otherwise. Piracy is a criminal act. DRM, while sold as an anti-piracy measure, has no demonstrable impact on piracy. All the "hardening" of DRM, that publishers may insist upon, will have no impact on piracy, except to make it potentially profitable. So I not only agree that they could "drive mainstream customers to piracy", but that it could also drive piracy to mainstream customers.
Luck;
Ken
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"Casual" piracy as defined by content providers is gifting/sharing content to family and personal friends, not uploading. And not personal use DeDRM-ing. It's a middle ground. It is making a copy of a CD for the neighbor.
Hardening is intended to keep any sharing within the licensed account. Given that most ebookstore licenses allow multiple devices to be tied to an account, there is a lot of sharing that can be performed legally among family members. Which is why there is so little of it in the ebook arena. But in the worldview of publishing any non-zero amount is too much.
Yeah, good luck getting there.