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Apple didn't win the DRM wars, far from it. The point is, iBooks have a too small a share to be interesting for 'pirates'. There are only so much books only released on iBooks. If they want, they could crack the DRM of iBooks in a week easily. They have done it before.
I also refuse to use 'pirates' and DRM removal as similar or equal. I always remove DRM, but I never share my books and I know there are many more like that. The reason is simple and I will give you a small example. I recently bought two original e-books (also having the paper book, but that is besides the point). I quickly realized it was a digitized version of the paper book with bad, bad OCR and post-processing by someone who didn't understand the language or really didn't care. It was to such a point I deemed it unreadable. By removing DRM I was able to correct the errors. I am not exaggerating when I say there were between 2500-3000 errors per book. The publisher didn't care when I pointed it out to them.
Reasons like that is why I remove DRM. DRM costs a lot of money for the publisher and is no protection at all. Social watermarking is a much better solution.
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