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Originally Posted by haertig
I would doubt that this is a big thing at all. For the wide population of eBook users, there is probably only a very small percentage who even know how to strip DRM. And stripping it from library eBooks is probably known to only a small percentage of the original small percentage. Plus, library eBooks are free to borrow. There's not much incentive to strip DRM from them, since you can just re-borrow them if you want. I do suppose people could borrow from a library, strip DRM, and then sell the result on a pirate website.
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I'm sure it's not a big thing but I'm sure it's a thing. I think there's a mistaken assumption regarding motivation. It's not about books being free to borrow, it's about possessing and having a copy of said book. The ease of which it can be reborrowed is, I think, fairly irrelevant. People who are inclined to deDRM library books want the book, not the borrowing rights. I also don't think there is much incentive to sell pirated books. It's all about the hoarding.