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Originally Posted by markbot
Let's say u r a novelist like Stephen King and u spend 6 months writing a book. You publish the book online DRM free in PDF and charge people upon purchase through a website like Amazon, etc. Very soon this book will end up on the file sharing services. It will be emailed among people that know each other. King will get much less for his work. Why would someone put all that effort into something if they know people can steal it so easily?
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If it is PDF, it might get shared, but hardly read. Most people do not like reading PDF. So while it gets shared, it doesn't get read that much. That's the truth to PDF. And most of the people who do the file sharing already know how to break the DRM from LIT, PDF, ePub, Mobipocket, and eReader. So it's too late. The key is out there. The only way to lock things is to come up with a lock nobody cares about opening.