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Originally Posted by Quoth
It's stupidity, as DRM actually doesn't stop real Pirates at all, they can easily make ebooks from paper ARCs. Exception might be streaming console games.
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DRM doesn’t stop real pirates of the type you cite, but I imagine that it does work to an extent to limit casual sharing of books. There must be a cohort who don’t want to truck with pirates and for whom DRM-stripping is outside their knowledge or capabilities, but who wouldn’t be averse to providing books within their immediate circle. I think especially since we see a lot of people justifying what their rights are in regard to digital media based on their rights in regard to physical media. The whole, “I paid for a license, which means I own the book” schtick. Or, “Since I can order paper books from abroad, that means I’m entitled to circumvent geo-blocking.” And so forth.
But I have nothing to back this up and I do know that Tor didn’t take much of a hit at all when they went DRM-free, so it’s sheer speculation.