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Originally Posted by lkmiller
But to me when it's really simple and well-known that you can keep a library book forever, "buy" a textbook for the rental price, or make Kindle Unlimited truly unlimited, some people won't think twice before doing so. This leads down a road to where publishers/authors give up on allowing their books to be available in those ways. [ETA: Or, even sadder, a few may give up on creating them altogether.]
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Actually deDRM, noDRM and similar and
DRM AT ALL have almost no effect on real, industrial piracy. The claims for DRM are by people selling DRM and large companies that want to control consumers. Any publisher or author put off publishing by "failure" of DRM is deluded or dishonest. Even effective DRM doesn't much affect piracy and DRM is not effective.
Most Pirate ebooks (written by famous people) that are distributed on the internet are from paper ARCs or copies out of a publisher's office. Not from Library ebooks or Kindle Unlimited. Kindle Unlimited is inherently wrong and DRM won't fix it.
DRM is a scam. It's immoral. As is DMCA. Lack of it would have a negligible effect on writing or publishing output or piracy.
Copyright and IP is important and big companies have moral and legal ways to go after criminals. DRM is like putting small caltrops on a road to stop ordinary people. It controls and messes up ordinary consumers. It has never reduced real piracy and never will.