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Originally Posted by kso
It can't prevent people with enough motivation and|or money, but a simple way to do that is to publish in print only, on quality paper, very good typesetting etc.
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Which absolutely did not work for JK Rowling, at all. Copies of her books hit the servers less than 24 hours after they were released in stores in paper.
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In other words: DRM is as easily removed as suits are convinced it's a solution to their perceived problem.
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"Suits." I think you grossly misunderstand who wants DRM; talk to a few hundred authors, first. Out of every hundred, over 95, and even as high as 99, want DRM for
their work. In the publishing/media world, most of the creatives want it, too, as they are disinterested in giving their work away for nothing.
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Originally Posted by darryl
The only DRM which cannot presently be removed is Adobe's "hardened" DRM scheme. If Adobe had their way this would have been compulsorily implemented back in 2014, breaking compatibility with many devices. They were forced to back down and the result is that this system has never been widely implemented. Of course it can be by just changing a simple setting in the content server, which so far has not happened. When it does I expect that it won't be long before it too is understood and can be removed, though there are of course no guarantees.
In the meantime, Adobe continues to rake in the money from DRM which is easily circumvented by anyone who wants to take the trouble to do so. Does it serve any purpose? I imagine there must be some who try to do something forbidden by DRM, find they can't and leave it at that. Though there are also many who google and find their way to Apprentice Alf, or even, regrettably, Epubor. I have said in the past and still maintain that the best defence against piracy is reasonable prices and convenience. The miracle is that there is a thriving market for ebooks (and movies and music) despite the ineffectiveness of DRM.
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As I've said a few thousand times before, here on MR, DRM is clearly not intended to preclude DRM-cracking by the type of folks that come to MR. Never was. It's intended to be a simple barrier to entry for the far less exploratory; it exists to prevent "casual theft," the bane of digital products everywhere, from good old Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day 'til now. We all know that; where Joe has some product, and loves it, takes it home, copies it to Susie Homemaker's computer, and to his daughter Jane's and his son Elroy's, etc. The sort of enthusiastic copying that nearly did 1-2-3 in, which was the real genesis of content licensing and people thinking about schema to prevent just that.
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