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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, but that's a ridulous argument. It's like say "Stop punishing car thieves - the fact that they steal your cars mean that they like them. Why don't you stop developing security systems and concentrate on making cheaper cars so that people will buy them rather than steal them?"
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There's a problem with your analogy. Developing security systems actually makes the cars harder to steal, while DRM doesn't make the ebooks less accessible on the darknet. No sense in going into details, as that's been explained time and again in multiple threads in the past. The bottom line is - if the book has been written, you can get it for free, so only quality of the ebook, ease of getting it, and morals influence which of the available versions will be popular. If the benefits of getting the commercial version ( quality, ease of use, feeling of doing the right thing ) outweigh the fact that additional money needs to be paid for it, then the commerical books will sell. Otherwise they won't. DRM as it is now is not a protection measure, it's just an ornament, a conversation topic.
So I think what taosaur was saying is, concentrate on how it really works, and not on the smoke screen.