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Old 01-03-2021, 11:14 AM   #97
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
OTH, someone gets an ARC of a new book on paper, cuts off the spine, scans it, maybe OCRs. They upload it either for free to many sites or until recently even put it on the playstore via Google books. The more popular a book is the easier it is to get a pirate copy. Those people do sometimes get caught and sued. Rarely a criminal prosecution. Films / TV is now trivial to pirate. Such a lot of money wasted on HDCP royalties, DVD & BD Region protection an the immoral DMCA.
It's very easy to buy a DVD/BR/4K-BR player that can be made region free. Then you can watch discs from anywhere. There is software that can copy the contents of a DVD/BR/4K-BR and remove the DRM and allow you to write it back to a blank disc.

The harder the content providers make it to use legally purchased content because of DRM, the more people will pirate it. I remember some games that were so locked up that they didn't work all that well on a lot of computers. There were more copies downloaded then bought because of that.
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