Thread: eBook piracy, how common is it?
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Old 04-02-2009, 07:50 AM   #399
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Originally Posted by Good Old Neon View Post
Perhaps DRM schemes and other similar measures publishers and labels resort to wouldn’t be so damn draconian if people did not steal their copyrighted materials? The fact is, protections exist precisely because people feel as though they can simply take what they do not own, have not paid for - security measures exist as a direct result of piracy.

I place less blame on the publishers and labels, and more on the end “I’ll take whatever I damn well please” user.
DRM doesn't matter. The people who will take eBooks and share them on the net already know how to strip the DRM or have a source of DRM stripped eBooks. So in that case, only the people trying to do things right are getting hurt.
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