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Originally Posted by anappo
In supermarket, your security will need to have enough success rate to make it likely that a thief gets caught. With say, 50% catch rate, it would be too risky for the thief. In case of DRM-ed digital object, you would need to have 100% success rate at preventing DRM removal by someone with intent to distribute that object. Historically, DRM has not been proven to be that reliable. Once the DRM gets removed and the object becomes available on darknet, then you are in a worse state than without DRM in the first place.
I think it is pretty safe to assume that DRM or no DRM, your object gets uploaded/seeded somewhere anyway.
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Not entirely true. If your DRM is sophisticated enough that only 1 in 20 customers have the ability to remove it and only 1 in 1000 customers have the desire to remove it then there is a reasonable chance your book wont be decrypted and shared online. However, as ebooks become more popular and sales increase, the chances that noone will share you book will become increasingly slim.