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OK one more time to clarify the remark I made about DRM. If not DRM thaen there will be another form of copy protection. Don't you understand that Copy protection is necessary?
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Don't you understand that copy protection has been around at least since early 1980's, and so far
there hasn't been a single one example that wasn't cracked!?
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You have to agree with me on this. "If authors and publishers aren't paid, there will be no more music or books.
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No, I don't. The massive amount of open-source software proves that at least
some creative people are willing to work for free, benefiting not from money but from e.g. the pleasure of being respected by people.
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How many publishers and how many authors made a profit from "Clemence, The Schoolmistress of Waveland" by Retta Babcock? Now what publisher and what author made a profit from "Phantom Prey" by James Sanford? Obviously, the first book, the copyright has run out on. The publisher doesn't want to publish it because anybody could copy it.
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I don't know, but I know that when Karel Capek's works came into public domain on January 1st, at least two publishers in my country started printing paper books and two others published them as e-books. Obviously they didn't know, unlike you, that the evil people on the internet will steal everything and rob them of all profit.
Anyway, I have read through the thread and it has become obvious that you do not care about our opinions or suggestions. All you want is to push your opinion as the only valid one; you see every conflicting opinion as a proof that the holder of that opinion is out there to steal your life's work and leave you starving. I have no more interest in feeding you more troll food.