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Originally Posted by Grey Ram
I voted yes, because "DRM that cannot be removed" in never going to happen in ebooks. In other words, if we assume that one impossible thing has happened, then all kinds of other impossible things could happen too. 
I remember that the Harry Potter books were initially released with one of the strongest DRM I can think off i.e. not as ebooks at all. What happened was that an army of dedicated fans not only scanned the books, but in some cases typed them directly and in others translated them to other languages before the official translation was available.
To me DRM has always been about being inconveniencing enough as to avoid blatant copying, but if a book is attractive enough that you "have" to pay for it even if it has such undesirable (to you) conditions attached, then it is worth re-typing to remove such conditions  |
Your post is predicated on 3 things:
1) That distributing pirated/re-typed books is never going to be successfully stopped
2) That many/most books will be released in physical form
3) That other people value sharing books enough to re-type them
Remember, Harry Potter was the most popular book series for a long time. Its sale numbers are up there with Shakespeare and the Bible. That's why people went to such effort. For 99% of books released, there isn't enough demand for that level of effort.
My time is money. Re-typing a book = hours and hours of time, not worth it no matter what the book is. There is literally no book worth that much.
If ebook DRM becomes uncrackable, I'll simply do what I did with video games when DRM became popular: stop buying new ones.