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Originally Posted by stumped
If a company wants to make life difficult for pirates, then streaming , plus android only is the way to go.
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And be totally obnoxious making the content difficult for ordinary users. I think Mills & Boone/Harlequin has done this. As a publisher I would NEVER EVER give exclusivity to such parasites.
Subscription & and Streaming only services are parasites and exploitive.
Single platform cheats consumers, dampens innovation and feeds monopolies. It's not about protecting copyright, it's about either greed or stupidity.
Those are not moral ways to combat Copyright violation. DRM is wrong and so is the DMCA.
Publishers need to leave consumers alone and only go after industrial pirates. The people that pirate ARC and sell or offer "free" (often there is a sub), or get copies of movies /TV from studio or projection booth.
If you can read, see or hear it, then NO DRM, even unbroken DRM can protect it. It's fantasy that streaming prevent pirates. It only removes flexibility for ordinary consumers.